Re: Some questions/suggestions

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

On Nov 22, 2006, at 10:47, dachsy wrote:

> Hi!
>
> First of all: I'm using org mode now for a couple of weeks and like it
> veeeery much. Thanks for this great work! :-)
>
> I have some questions/suggestions:
>
> - From time to time I'd like to get a quick overview of what I've done
>   the last weeks. Agenda Timeline view would be perfect, but it only
>   includes DONE entries if they were scheduled or had a deadline. Is
>   it somehow possible to include also all other DONE entries?
>   Furthermore: It would be perfect if I could do a timeline overview
>   from several org files.

Why don't you use the agenda view for this?  It shows you exactly
one week, you can turn on log-mode with "l" to show the done stuff.

If you want to do a specific set of files, or if you want to turn off
(for example) diary entries, see section 8.9.3 in the manual.

> - When using "C-c $" to move DONE entries to the archive file, the
>   close date of the entry is changed to the current date. Not sure if
>   this is intended, but I'd like to keep the original close date.

That was a bug, fixed for 4.57.

> - When setting date (deadline/schedule, ie w/ "C-cC-s"), it would be
>   nice if I just could enter something like '+7' to schedule/deadline
>   the entry 7 days in the future.

> - I very much like the remember interface, but: if I set
>   'org-reverse-note-order' to true and the target file has some '#XYZ'
>   statments at the beginning, the entry is added at the very beginning
>   instead of after these statements. Furthermore: I like the interface
>   since "C-cC-c RET RET" is fast, but: Is there an easy way (other
>   than hacking the org-remember-hanlder) to add the new note as level
>   1 heading as default instead of a level 2 heading?

In 4.57, when you use reversed order, it will now paste just before the
first headline in the buffer, and it will use level 1 instead of 2.
Level 2 does not make sense at the beginning of the buffer.

> - Coloring: I was able to specify other faces for some of my TODO
>   keywords (ie. SCHED) using 'font-lock-add-keywords'. This is
>   possible in the normal org-mode, but I wasn't able to do this also
>   in agenda view: here I'd like to have different colors too in the
>   'ALL CURRENTLY OPEN TODO ITEMS' section.

Fontification in the agenda buffer is not done using font-lock-mode,
but is done by hand while the buffer is being build.  You best bet for
hacking this is to use the hook `org-finalize-agenda-hook' and
put in there a function that will find those keywords and
give them different faces.  However, this will still be a problem when
you are using commands that update lines in the agenda buffer - these
updated lines will not see the action of the hook....

Thanks for your bug reports and input.

- Carsten