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From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: section continuation (was: Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug?)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:22:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8tS+VfnddN+6ByAtK78FHJpJSkg_4aHnk0A_N=k-g+bUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y6r5s3HEX8sNlgn6@tuxteam.de>

i can't offer an enticing bikeshed, but i often do this, which is
possibly tangential but maybe sparks ideas.

* topic
*** REF this entry goes at top of siblings below topic
*** x [x sort of means "the topic per se"]
this is actually the text that belongs to topic, and it is under x
because i need it as a sibling with other siblings.

another issue is that it is confusing enough even with the org model
when i have child tasks below lots of body text.
*** AKEYWORD i want this entry at bot of topic

idk if this is useful to anybody else, but i find myself using x as a
generic "this is the actual topic but it needs siblings" kind of
thing.  it does have one drawback which is that the agenda shows x
instead of the top heading.

it is merely a quick habit.  i wonder if anybody else does it.  there
is no special org behavior or anythng.


On 12/27/22, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 01:08:41PM +0000, abq@bitrot.link wrote:
>> tomas wrote:
>> > I already proposed
>> > having one canonical heading meaning "back to that level", say dash
>> > or dot
>>
>> > Now for that to be useful, you'd have to gather enough users who
>> > like the idea and use the convention. It's a communication medium,
>> > after all :-)
>>
>> The question isn't only how people interpret their files, but also how
>> their
>> software interprets their files.
>
> The second would follow from the first, I guess.
>
>> Is anyone here aware of anyone who uses a lone dash or dot or comma
>> heading
>> for some other purpose? [...]
>
>> To bikeshed the character, dash is commonly used in tree viewers to
>> indicate
>> a folded heading [...]
>
> Great! I see you're already in the middle of it :-)
>
> Cheers
> --
> t
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-28  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-27 13:08 section continuation (was: Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug?) abq
2022-12-27 13:57 ` tomas
2022-12-28  2:22   ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2022-12-27 14:15 ` section continuation abq
2022-12-27 15:36   ` tomas
2022-12-27 20:22   ` abq
2022-12-28  5:17     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-28  8:58       ` tomas
2022-12-29  6:01         ` Tim Cross
2022-12-29  8:57           ` tomas
2022-12-29  9:21             ` Heinz Tuechler
2022-12-29 10:09               ` Jean Louis
2022-12-29 10:42                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-29 14:00                   ` Jean Louis
2022-12-31 12:16                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-31 12:26                       ` tomas
2023-01-01 21:29                         ` Tom Gillespie
2022-12-29 10:28               ` tomas
2022-12-31 12:03                 ` Greg Minshall
2022-12-29 10:06             ` Jean Louis
2022-12-29 12:47     ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-28 17:37   ` Timothy
2022-12-28 19:34     ` tomas
2022-12-29 10:21       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-29 10:30         ` tomas
2023-01-01 21:19           ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-12-28 20:01     ` Heinz Tuechler

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