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Re: [Orgmode] resheduling from agenda buffer


From: Richard G Riley
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] resheduling from agenda buffer
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:17:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50.6 (gnu/linux)

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> "Egli Christian (KIRO 41)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I think the reason is the principle of least surprise. 
>
> Agreed. That's also why rescheduling should perhaps leave some
> persistent warning in the agenda buffer (as S-left/right does).
> I guess it would solve the issue Richard was concerned about.

Most 100% certainly. See the other reply. The S-<left,right>
functionality is spot on. As a noob I believe I am more likely to spot these
inconsistencies that established users. The other reply might have been
private so I include it below:

,----
| While I can understand that, it certainly surprises the user to try and
| reschedule a task that isn't really there. I would suggest that the only
| sensible and usable and consistent thing to do is to mark it as changed
| like with the S-<left,right> .. in this case it hilites the entry as
| changed but you can continue to work on it. And then refresh (r)
| obviously moves all tasks to their correct positions while leaving the
| cursor at the current/next line.
| 
| The functionality for S-<lft,right> is perfect.
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