Re: Suggestion: Jump points

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

Hi Rick,

I have not found a good and general way to introduce the feature
you are asking for. In 5.08 there will be a new hook
`org-agenda-after-show-hook'.  This hook will be run after
the agenda has exposed an entry, either by an interactive
command like TAB or RET, or by follow mode.  I guess you
could try to get a function in there that will search for
your marker, something like (untested)

(defun find-ricks-marker ()
   "FIXME"
   (let ((pos (point)) beg end)
     (org-back-to-heading t)
     (setq beg (point))
     (org-end-of-subtree t)
     (setq end (point))
     (goto-char beg)
     (if (re-search-forward "\\+\\+" end t)
	(goto-char (match-beginning 0))
       (goto-char pos))))

Hope this helps.

- Carsten

On Jul 11, 2007, at 13:52, Rick Moynihan wrote:

> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> On Jul 6, 2007, at 18:28, Rick Moynihan wrote:
>>> Agreed.  My gut feeling is that they fulfill largely different 
>>> purposes.  The problem is that I tend to make a decision to 
>>> structure something with lists & checkboxes, and later on discover I 
>>> want an item in the list to appear inside the agenda.
>> In such a case I usually make the headline above the checkbox
>> list a TODO and have that show up in the agenda.  From there
>> it is only one or two TAB presses to the checkboxes.
>> - Carsten
>
> I too have tried this, but it means if you start editing your lists 
> (and if they're numbered) the list numbers get reset which can be 
> annoying.
>
> I sometimes have quite long lists within outlines, and I guess the 
> problem is that I know what project I want to work on yet I want to 
> quickly find the item within it which I'd previously identified as 
> tackling next.  Sometimes when returning to such a list it takes me a 
> while to figure out which task I was supposed to tackling next.
>
> So here's a suggestion.  Why not support jump points (or jump lines), 
> which would be essentially be a syntactic marker that would tell 
> org-mode to jump to a specific line within an outline when visiting 
> from the agenda e.g. via follow mode.
>
> * My main project outline.
>   blah blah blah...
>   ...
>
>   - [ ] do something
>   - [ ] do this ++
>   - [ ] do something else
>   ...
>
> I'm not too bothered about the syntax, but here the ++ indicates the 
> line which the point should be placed on within that outline.
>
> Some simple interactive commands could be written to reset the jump 
> point to a new line within that outline.  This would simply remove any 
> existing jump-point and insert a new one at the point.  Naturally this 
> command might want to alert you about jump-point removal, and if there 
> were multiple points (accidentally) defined within a single outline it 
> might warn you of this, perhaps moving you into an interactive mode to 
> clean them up and set the point to where you wanted.
>
> Is this something people might find useful?  I personally find I spend 
> a lot of time trying to re-acquire my previous context within a 
> particular task, something like this might help.
>
> Actually, after thinking about this; I realise that Emacs has 
> bookmarks (a feature I've not yet put to use) perhaps a better idea 
> would be to integrate these with org-mode and visiting the file via 
> the agenda?
>
> What do people think?
>
> R.
>
>

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Carsten Dominik
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