From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Abrahams Subject: Feature request [7.3] Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:59:18 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51373 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ4d9-0006IL-0N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:59:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ4d7-0006wY-Qh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:59:22 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:41199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ4d7-0006wU-NH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:59:21 -0500 Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so366280qyk.0 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:59:20 -0800 (PST) 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 When using Org for planning, I often find myself corrupting my Org files. All kinds of things can go wrong, but the basic issue is that agenda items have a syntax, and it's easy to violate, especially when I'm going *fast*, which after all is what Org is supposed to enable! For example, a typical captured item looks like: ** TODO Set up yasnippet SCHEDULED: <2010-11-22 Mon> :PROPERTIES: :Link: [[some-nasty-link]] :ID: A0B4159C-D796-40DF-9ADD-93DF03577B68 :END: [2010-11-20 Sat 20:17] Now, suppose I'm looking at this in the agenda and I want to add some commentary. Where should I open the new line? If I choose wrongly, my agenda will start to misbehave (e.g. items will appear to be un-reschedulable because they'll acquire a second SCHEDULED date). So I'm requesting some more help from Org in maintaining proper Org syntax. Could Org have a mode that prevents things from being modified incorrectly? For example, it'd be awesome if dates were smart (TAB into one, hit return, get a smart date editor). It'd be great if there were a way to make the ID property read-only (or really really hard to change). I'd love it if there were a way to create a link to an org item that narrows the view to just that item, so I don't inadvertently mess anything else up. Do you get the idea? Thanks for listening, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com