Re: FR: toggling timestamps active/inactive

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi Adam,

On Oct 16, 2007, at 16:19, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> Another simple idea - subject line is pretty much self-explanatory I
> think: would be great to be able to toggle timestamps between [] and
> <>.
>
> Why?  Say I have an event in my diary.org file, and am subsequently
> told my presence at the event is no longer necessary.  Consequently I
> would like to keep it in the file for reference, to track colleagues'
> movements or in case my presence is re-required, but I don't want the
> event to appear in the agenda.

Writing the command is simple - finding a keybinding is harder.
I will make so that using S-up or S-down on one of the brackets
will switch the type.  If you have a good proposal for another
key, come forward.

> By the way, I probably could have coded this in the time it took to
> write the mail, but I thought that until I've sent a piece of paper to
> the FSF assigning rights for code contributed to org-mode and emacs,
> it would be better to let Carsten write it.  Is that correct or flawed
> thinking?

Well, I cannot officially take your code, but if you show me an 
"example"
implementation, it will probably be faster still.

- Carsten