At Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:11:09 +0530, Manish wrote: > > Manish <mailtomanish.sha...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Feature request [7.3] > Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:11:09 +0530 > To: Dave Abrahams <d...@boostpro.com> > Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Message-ID: <aanlktikjaxo4bm1gbignzvjyzrddyrfqy_0vbwhcw...@mail.gmail.com> > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote: > > > > 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. > > I am not sure what you mean by agenda here since you don't see the > full entry in the agenda.
Exactly. Sometimes I am dealing with agenda items from plain org. For example, if I've stored a link to the item and follow it from an agenda item, I end up in my todo.org file. > > 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). > > > > When in the entry in org file, use `C-c C-z' and when in agenda just > use `z' to add a correctly formatted and timestamped note. Yes, I use those keys. The problem is that I edit fast, and an errant key here or there can blow the syntax of items to heck. > > 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). > > FWIW, I find shift+up/down arrow sufficiently magical for my use case, > but I suppose you have already tried that. Yes, I've tried all the simple things. I'm really asking for regular org to act more like the agenda in some ways. > > 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? > > You mean like if you clicked/returned on an item in agenda it should > take you to the entry in org file but narrowed to that item? spacebar already does that. But if I have an *org link* to an [[id: ... ]] item and follow that I end up with no narrowing. > I had earlier added a call to org-narrow (I think) to the code that > enables follow mode and the code that jumps to the entry in the org > file. It used to work nice but was a minor irritation when I needed > to widen it all the time. I have since lost the code but it should > be reasonable easy to reproduce. That's nice, but not what I'm asking for. I'm asking for a comprehensive re-think of editing in plain org mode. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
