Re: resheduling from agenda buffer

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

Sorry for only repeating what was said before - I wrote this in
an airplane and was not aware how far this thread had gone.  You guys
had it all figured out.  I agree that the best solution is to provide
a proper marker in the agenda when something has moved, but only move
it with "r".

It will work like this in 5.11.  Thanks.

- Carsten

On Sep 28, 2007, at 16:07, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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Carsten Dominik
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