Re: Re: Release 6.28

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>>> Yes, both shifting by the same amount and setting a fixed date can  
>>> be
>>> useful. I usually re-schedule leftover todos by shifting them by one
>>> or two working days to the future. So originally I had a bulk  
>>> version of
>>> `org-agenda-do-date-later' and friends in mind as opposed to
>>> `org-agenda-schedule'. But the latter one would be useful to.  
>>> Ideally,
>>> S-left, C-cC-s et al. would trigger a bulk shift/bulk schedule  
>>> whenever
>>> there are marked agenda items.
>>
>> I am not so sure about this last point.  I am not a
>> fan of automatic bulk action if several items are selected.
>>
>> - these lists can become long, and selected entries might
>>  be off the screen
>> - for this to make sense, selected entries should remain
>>  selected after action, increasing the danger of unwanted action
>> - you might be in the process of selecting some entries, when you
>>  want to do a quick action on an individual entry you come across.
>>  But you cannot, because any action will act on all selected ones.
>>
>> So I do prefer a special command like "B" to introduce bulk action.
>
> I undecided on this, too. Automagically working on marked entries  
> should
> they exists seems more natural to me but you are right more dangerous,
> too. So I'm perfectly with you except that I'd say that marked entries
> should be unmarked after the action.

The reason why I said they would have to stay marked is that when
you use S-right to reschedule, you want to be able to repeat
this command several times to reach the desired date.....

OK, settled, we will use the special command.

- Carsten