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From: | Ilya Shlyakhter |
Subject: | Re: [O] are super-hidden technical blocks required? |
Date: | Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:29:15 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 |
On 8/6/2012 2:16 PM, Allen S. Rout wrote:
One common use would be to store the creation & last-modification dates of each entry. I've tried various ways of doing it and they all were too obtrusive to use on _every_ entry. Time-stamping of all entries would be extremely useful, just as time-stamping of files is. But I don't want to see the timestamps during normal Org usage.As a user, if your code is decorating my tree, I want to know it. If you hide it, I'd be mad. Org is my life in plain text, not WordPerfect with reveal-codes.
For decorations that change behavior, e.g. export options or inherited properties, sure. But meta-information such as creation/modification times or unique node ids, which do not change behavior and are known to be associated with every node, displaying them is a distraction. If you already know that every node has a creation time, what is added by seeing a :PROPERTIES: line for that node? If anything, it obscures nodes that do have unique
properties you want to know about.
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