Re: Refiling list items

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

Hi Jeff,

thanks for bringing up this issue, and thanks all for the input.

I pushed three small changes to the org-refile interface:

1. before prompting the user for a refile target, put the point at the
   beginning of the region/subtree to refile.  This will make sure
   everyone understands we are refiling headlines, not text.

2. Improve the prompt itself, explicitely saying whether we are refiling
   a subtree or a region (containing subtree(s)).

3. Add a new option `org-refile-active-region-within-subtree' which,
   when turned on, allows the user to refile the active region, turning
   the first line into a headline using `org-toggle-heading'.

I think these are improvements going in the right direction -- let me
know what you think.  On the overall, I'm with Nicolas in thinking that
we need to be extra careful when we try to extend a functionality to
heterogeneous elements.

Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> My point is that outside of its list, an item is just plain text.

Yes!

« Outside of the hive, a bee is just a fly. » (René Descartes)

:)

> Thus, why not take that into account? Instead of creating a magical
> function to refile items anywhere, let's just extend `org-refile' to
> work on a region of text which is not a sub-tree.

This is what I tried to achieve with the new option.

> At the moment, org-refile understands the concept of region, but checks
> if that region holds a sub-tree. What about removing that check, and
> adapt the code to text without trees? It will then be the user's problem
> if he wants to match apples and oranges. Furthermore, as a side effect,
> refiling an item would simply mean selecting it and using refile
> interface.

Thanks for this idea!

Best,

-- 
 Bastien