Archiving only with confirmation

Archiving only with confirmation

[Markus Grebenstein]

Dear List,

from time to time I involuntarily archive parts of my thesis when I want 
to save (it happens when I mess up the saving keys). Since I recognized 
this a couple of days or even weeks later this makes recovering complicated.

Therefore I would love to have the possibility to be asked whether I 
really want to do that. I used 
org-archive-subtree-default-with-confirmation but I did not get what the 
meaning of that one is. When I use that command I am sure that I want to 
archive and as far as I see it does not change the default behavior.

Does anybody have an idea how to achieve what I want?
Thanks in advance,

Markus

Re: Archiving only with confirmation

[cberry]

Markus Grebenstein <post@mgrebenstein.de> writes:

> Dear List,
>
> from time to time I involuntarily archive parts of my thesis when I
> want to save (it happens when I mess up the saving keys). Since I
> recognized this a couple of days or even weeks later this makes
> recovering complicated.
>
> Therefore I would love to have the possibility to be asked whether I
> really want to do that.

Is this what you want:

,----
| (emacs)Top > Customization > Key Bindings > Disabling                                                           
| 
| 57.4.11 Disabling Commands
| --------------------------
| 
| Disabling a command means that invoking it interactively asks for
| confirmation from the user.  The purpose of disabling a command is to
| prevent users from executing it by accident; [...]
`----

For example, I have this in my macbook ~/.emacs


,----
| ;; get rid of pesky aquamacs-save-buffers-kill-emacs binding
| 
| (put 'aquamacs-save-buffers-kill-emacs  'disabled 
|      "Use C-x C-c to quit\n")
| 
| (put 'aquamacs-print 'disabled "Why print?\n")
`----

To protect against the commands bound to clover-p and clover-q being
inadvertently run when what I really wanted was M-p or M-q. (The clover
key sits next to the 'M-' on my keyboard.)



HTH,

Chuck

 I used
> org-archive-subtree-default-with-confirmation but I did not get what
> the meaning of that one is. When I use that command I am sure that I
> want to archive and as far as I see it does not change the default
> behavior.
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to achieve what I want?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Markus
>
>
>

-- 
Charles C. Berry                            Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
cberry at ucsd edu			    UC San Diego
http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/  La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901

Re: Archiving only with confirmation

[Marc-Oliver Ihm]

Am 03.03.2012 16:54, schrieb Markus Grebenstein:
> Dear List,
>
> from time to time I involuntarily archive parts of my thesis when I want to save (it happens
> when I mess up the saving keys). Since I recognized this a couple of days or even weeks later
> this makes recovering complicated.
>
> Therefore I would love to have the possibility to be asked whether I really want to do that. I
> used org-archive-subtree-default-with-confirmation but I did not get what the meaning of that
> one is. When I use that command I am sure that I want to archive and as far as I see it does not
> change the default behavior.
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to achieve what I want?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Markus
>
>
>

Hi Markus,

Maybe

	M-x disable-command

could help.

It will ask you for the command you would like to disable (in your case probably 
"org-archive-subtree")
and modify your .emacs accordingly.

You could reach the same effect by putting:

	(put 'org-archive-subtree 'disabled t)

in your initialization-file (if it is not .emacs).

I think I will try this too, because I remember some occasions,
that I have used it accidentially like you ...

with kind regards, Marc