Re: Agenda priority setting bad feature

[Robert Horn <rjhorn@alum.mit.edu>]

FBastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Robert Horn <rjhorn@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> I think that the key mapping for "," and "C-c," in agenda is a mistake
>> and should be swapped.  
>
> The agenda is read-only, so short keystrokes are often preferred 
> over long one.  "," being short for "C-c ," looks natural and intuitive,
> so I don't think the change is necessary.
>

The agenda is not read-only for this command.  The current "," modifies
both the agenda and the source org file to change the priority.  In
org-mode, this modification is made by "C-c ,".  If agenda were
read-only I wouldn't have made the suggestion.  What tripped me up is
that the key combination that I use to change priority in org-mode
didn't work in agenda-mode.  In earlier versions of org mode, up to
7.8.11 the "C-c ," did change the priority in agenda mode.

Since the priority is already displayed as part of the line in the
agenda, I don't see the priority of having another command that 
displays it in the minibuffer.

An equally good fix is to have both "," and "C-c ," make the priority
modifcation.  (Basically change the key-map so that both "," and "C-c ,"
map to org-agenda-priority.)

R Horn