One year after - questions and suggestions

[Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>]

Hi Carsten and all,

it's been one year now that I stopped actively contributing to Org, but
I didn't stop using it, of course.  Here is a loooong list of questions
and suggestions I have.  I tested them over a fresh Org and Emacs, both
pulled from their repos this morning.  

I apologize if most of this has already been mentionned in discussions I
missed - I digged the mailing list a bit but I didn't check thoroughly.

Thanks!

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- BUG: When export a descriptive list to ASCII, replace the ":"
  separator by a single ":".

- BUG: Switch to a state requiring an annotation, cancel the annotation,
  there will be an empty :LOGBOOK: drawer.  Remove it?

- BUG: When picking up a date with `org-time-stamp', <up> and <down> will
  browse the minibuffer history.  I think it does not make sense here.

- BUG/FR: When building completion list for refiling, don't include the
  very entry we are trying to refile.

- BUG: In agenda mode, C-e goes to the [last-1] char of the line.  (Note
  that this is not visible when the entries finishes with a link.)

- BUG: Weird result of C-c * when used before the first heading.

- BUG: Properties inserting in a remember buffer are not indented
  correctly when the remember note goes to its target.  For example:
  
  * My remember note
    :PROPERTIES:
    :Effort: 10
    :END:

  Is refiled to the Notes entries:
 
  * Notes
  ** My remember note
   :PROPERTIES:
   :Effort: 10
   :END:

  ... but the drawer does not align with the stars.

- BUG?: When deleting an attachment, the :ID: property is not itself
  deleted.  Not sure if it's wrong, but it's weird.

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- FR: In addition to the {+} {:} facilities for dynamically computing a
  property's value, have a way to use a calc or a tbl formula?
  Additionnally, have a _DEFAULT suffix to define defaults.

- FR: A function to display the link the cursor is on (the same way the
  mouse displays a small popup.)  This function would particularily be
  useful in the agenda view.

- FR: C-c C-l in agenda view to edit link at point?  (Or is this
  producing to much overlap between org-agenda and the normal org
  editing mode?)

- FR: Highlight the currently clocked-in task in agenda-mode? 

- FR: When selecting an attachment, if there is already a directory
  defined for this the current entry, then use this directory as the
  default directory for browsing and select the attachment.

- FR: All numeric values within brackets are highlighted.  Since this
  type of footnotes is now discouraged, I think it make sense not to
  highlight those values (having digits in square brackets is not so
  rare.)

- FR: When refiling to a non-existent entry, create this entry on the
  fly?

- FR: Allow to insert "+1d"-type strings when picking up a date with
  `org-time-stamp'.

- FR: Symmetric to individual lead time, I wish I can have individual
  "remaining" time - for example, the number of days during which a
  deadline is still visible in the agenda view.  (That would happily
  steal 90% of what org-expiry.el is trying to achieve.)

- FR: IMHO, turning off follow-mode in the agenda view should restore
  the window configuration we had before turning follow-mode on.  (By
  the way, not being able to use `C-x 1' when follow-mode is on is quite
  confusing.)

- FR: Following a sh: or an elisp: link prompts the user for
  confirmation.  Can we have a variable that let the user to globally
  turn this off?

- FR: Visually mark (with #) entries that are marked in the agenda view?
  
- FR: When setting a mark in the agenda view, go to the next line?
  (Like in buffer-menu and other menu mode.)

- FR: When undoing an archive command, correctly delete was has been
  added to the archive file?

- FR: Symmetric to `C-c / b' have a `C-c / a' command to select entries
  that are after a date?

- FR: Maybe `?' could provide a little help in agenda mode.

- FR: Grouping several :clock: lines when clocking periods are very
  close to each other (with a user-defined threshold).  For example,
  clocking 5 times 10 minutes within the same hour would be rounded up
  to one hour.

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- Q: How to set a recurring time range (say an 2-days event)?
  
  For example: <2009-03-14 sam>--<2009-03-15 dim> recurring each month.
  I know I could use a diary sexp but I wonder if it's possible withing
  Org's syntax.

- Q: Is there a way to select properties which values are = < > to a
  numeric value?

- Q: `org-attach-auto-tag' has no effect when attaching a directory
  (instead of a file)?

- Q/FR: Is there a way to set `org-enforce-todo-dependencies' per task?
  (By the way, if I understand correctly, the :ORDERED: property only
  makes sense when `org-enforce-todo-dependencies' is non-nil, right?)

- Q/FR: How to go at the end of a field in a table?  Maybe C-a and C-e
  could be contextually redefined to do this, since a table is such a
  specific editing context.

- Q/FR: How to delete the timestamp of an entry from the agenda?  Maybe
  `C-c C-d SPC', `C-c C-s SPC' could respectively delete deadlines and
  scheduled properties.  Or maybe C-c C-u could remove any timestamp
  (this keystroke is free in org-agenda-mode since outline-mode is not
  loaded.)

Thanks for any feedback,

-- 
 Bastien