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
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