Re: FR: more flexible customization of org-agenda-custom-commands key bindings

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:06:03AM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On  28Oct2007, at 3:42 PM, Bastien wrote:
> > I think it will be hard to have a simpler keystroke than `C-x b' :)

Bastien - actually it's really important for me that this be a single
letter.  The part of GTD I am weakest with is the regular reviews, so
I need this to become extremely fluent.

> >But anyway, I guess your point is to have some Org internal command
> >for this function -- which would also avoid the problem with
> >ido.el.
> 
> We could use "e" for "execute agenda command"?

That suits me fine, thanks.

> >>I can't think of a good mnemonic for binding any of these to this
> >>operation.  My preferred solution would be the following, though I
> >>would understand if it was rejected on the grounds of being too
> >>disruptive to what users are used to:
> >>
> >>  - rebind 'r' to this operation, since 'redo' or 'repeat' is the most
> >>    obvious mnemonic,
> >>
> >>  - rebind 'g' to `org-agenda-redo', since 'g' is a universal emacs
> >>    keybinding meaning 'refresh the current buffer display', and
> >>
> >>  - bind 'G' to `org-agenda-toggle-time-grid', since this is a less
> >>    frequent operation and hence can be moved to the chord "shift-G"
> >>    without causing hassle.
> 
> I do agree with the last two, "g" should indeed be the refresh
> command.  However, I'm hesitating to change the "r" binding, I
> believe that many people (including me) are too used to this key
> binding.

Completely understood.