From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer Stengele Subject: optimising the selection of alternatives in remember templates Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:13:26 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JG0PB-0006Eo-CH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:13:45 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JG0P9-0006ET-4b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:13:44 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JG0P9-0006EQ-1u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:13:43 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JG0P8-0005RF-Lg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:13:43 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JG0P2-0004qS-5E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:13:36 +0000 Received: from p57af33bb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.175.51.187]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:13:36 +0000 Received: from rainer.stengele by p57af33bb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:13:36 +0000 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Imagine using remember to write down a note about a telephone call. These days I have a remember template with the most possible customers company name, the most possible customer names and then subjects and the "types". This adds up to a lot of alternatives in the template. For choosing the correct one I have to switch through a lot of alternatives which are uninteresting as soon as I have chosen the first alternative, here the company name. I find the remember templates are an awesome feature! They could be optimised in terms of usability if I could define the alternatives hierarchically like for example (company1 - ((customer name1|customer name2|customer name3) (project name1|project name2|project name3) (incident type1|incident type2|incident type3|))) (company2 - ((customer name4|customer name5|customer name6) (project name1|project name4|project name4) (incident type1|incident type3|incident type4|))) ... This would help speeding up the selection of the correct alternatives in a remember template depending on the selection first made while a customer is just beginnning to talk on the phone. I hope this was clear enough. Rainer