Re: ideas for org-refile

["Samuel Wales" <samologist@gmail.com>]

Hi Carsten,

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:08, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
> You will get back to the previous target simply by pressing <up> at
> the prompt, as the previous target is in the history.  I'd say this
> is good enough.

I was thinking that a separate command would allow binding to a single
key, but history should help a lot.   Don't know why I didn't try it.
Thanks.

>> ***** org-refile: accept a region if transient-mark-mode
>
> What do you mean by this?  A region with several headlines, to
> move them all?

Yes.

(More generally it might be possible in principle to mark specific
entries and then move the marked entries, like marking files in dired,
but that would be kind of complicated in org.)

>> ***** org-refile: allow you to enter a new item
>> it will create that and refile under it.  might need to experiment
>> with different interfaces.
>
> I think this is what remember is for.  If you exit a remember buffer
> with `C-1 C-c C-c', the refile interface will be used to file the entry.

Different.

If you are on a previously remembered entry called "granny smith", and
you want to file under /food/fruit/apple, but apple does not exist
(/food/fruit is all that exists), then you could type
/food/fruit/apple and org-refile would 1.  create apple and 2.  put
the entry under point underneath apple.

At present, org-refile will not let you enter the apple part.  Perhaps
I am missing something here.

> I don't know ido.el, what advantages would it give?

You could, for example, type a sequence of letters that appear in that
order anywhere in the target, case insensitively, to select an entry.
It is thrillingly efficient.

Maybe anything.el has a similar mechanism.