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* Feature request [7.3]
@ 2010-12-07 20:59 Dave Abrahams
  2010-12-08  4:37 ` Jeff Horn
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Dave Abrahams @ 2010-12-07 20:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


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

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2010-12-07 20:59 Feature request [7.3] Dave Abrahams
2010-12-08  4:37 ` Jeff Horn
2010-12-08 16:20 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-09  2:48   ` Dave Abrahams
2010-12-09  8:57     ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-09 10:42       ` Dave Abrahams
2010-12-08 17:41 ` Manish
2010-12-08 22:14   ` Dave Abrahams

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