Wanrong Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Sullivan wrote: >> Wanrong Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> When I am using planner-copy-or-move-region to re-schedule a block of >>> tasks, it seems the first task in the block is always missed by this >>> function. Is this a bug? >>> I am using Emacs 21.4 on Debian, and planner 2007-03-22 tar ball. >>> >>> Thanks for giving comments or investigating this. >>> >> >> I've thought about this a bit, still thinking about it. >> >> The task on the current line won't be moved. So you just need to set the mark >> on the line before the first task you want to move. >> >> If we change this, we have to decide what happens when the mark is in the >> middle of a task. Should that task be moved, or not? >> >> I think sticking with the current behavior might be best. >> >> > I agree it is a vague issue and debatable whether a task should be moved > or not when the mark is in the middle of a task, but if the beginning of > a region is at the *beginning* of a task line, I would say probably it > is intuitive for most people to think that the task should be moved. > When I have a nice rectangular selection block (both the beginning and > end of the region are at the starting positions of lines), I just think > the whole block will get moved. > > Can we check in the function that at least for the non-vague case as I > described above, the whole region will get moved? Missing a task > sometimes can shake people's trust in the planning system. :)
I can go along with that. Can you put a bug in the tracker for it and mark it priority 6 please? What I ultimately want to do is have planner-copy-or-move-task check to see if transient-mark-mode is enabled, and if so, operate on the region. The line you draw (no pun intended) makes sense to me. -- John Sullivan Emacs Planner Maintainer http://www.wjsullivan.net/PlannerMode.html GPG Key: AE8600B6 _______________________________________________ Planner-el-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss
