From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: resheduling from agenda buffer Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:07:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IbY19-0000JU-Oi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:49:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IbY17-0000Iv-KR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:49:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IbY17-0000Ip-21 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:49:41 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IbY16-0008Pa-C7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:49:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Richard G Riley Cc: org-mode On Sep 28, 2007, at 3:15, Richard G Riley wrote: > > Two questions: > > 1) When following the instruction from the following link and > rescheduling from the agenda buffer, why do I always get > > "Item scheduled for nil" in the message bufffer? his is just a bug, fixed now for the next version. > 2) What is the reason behind having to manually "refresh" after a > reschedule in the agenda buffer, why does it not do it automatically? Initially the reason was technical. Constructing the agenda can take a second or more, to automatically reconstructing it after each change forbids itself. Just moving around a changed line can be difficult. However, after giving up on trying to change everything live, I now happen to think that this is in fact good. What you really do is look at a list of tasks and appointments, and you do want to push things around. I really like to be able to modify several lines before getting a rearranged display. For example: - When things move around with each change I make, I constantly have to follow the changes with my eyes and memory, this is more tiring. - I change a TODO entry to DONE. That means it should not even be in the agenda anymore, and a live update would just get rid of the item. If you made a mistake in marking it done, it is hard to find the entry back and change it back. - I want to reschedule an item to next week. Will the display then move to next week? So I need to go back to today to continue working? Things like this. You *do* get visual feedback that an entry has been modified, and "r" is not hard to press. So even if I knew how to change it, I would not want to do it. > (ps Carsten, if you are reading this I found the issue with > org-return-follows-link - it has to be set before loading Org so cant > be > used in normal customization block). Yes, the docstring of that variable says so. - Carsten