From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:24:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E428C447-03C5-4915-B17E-F9E921C39936@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890909010232k2d2ba5fnde4c81e8e3ab40c0@mail.gmail.com>
I would NEVER EVER EVER delete naked ellipses, this is dangerous.
Press `C-c C-r' in their vicinity, this should hopefully fix the
problem. Otherwise, `M-x show-all' will always do the trick.
- Carsten
On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I have a bad habit. How can I defeat it?
>
> Often an elipsis ("...") is seen at the bottom of a new entry from a
> remember template. I find myself deleting them, compulsively. I'm
> not so sure, but I THINK that sometimes this is ok, and I now am
> afraid I have discovered that at some times a whole bunch of pre-
> exiisting entries are deleted when I delete the elipsis.
>
> What's the scoop about elipses? Which variables are relevant? Can
> I defeat this habit by reconfiguring, or do I have to force myself
> to have better habits?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alan Davis
>
>
> You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,
> but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever
> about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's
> doing---that's what counts.
>
> ----Richard Feynman
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-01 9:32 bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree) Alan E. Davis
2009-09-01 12:24 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-09-01 13:36 ` Scot Becker
2009-09-01 20:49 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-09-01 21:54 ` Alan E. Davis
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