Re: [Orgmode] Feature improvement request: state change logging

2009-02-12 Thread Carsten Dominik


On Feb 11, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:


Hi,

My TODO sequence is set up as following:

(setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence TODO(t) STARTED(s!)  
WAITING(w@/!) MAYBE(m/!) DELEGATED(g@/!) DEFERRED(d!/!)  
HOLD(h!/!) | DONE(x) CANCELED(c


The state change logging is great, but I wonder whether we can  
further improve it:


1. Can we also include the original state in the log message?
i.e.: instead of having  - State DEFERRED   [2009-02-11 Wed  
11:38]

we can have
- State DEFERRED  from HOLD [2009-02-11 Wed 11:38]

The message will be clearer, and useful even when somebody edited  
the TODO keyword in place without using the org-todo command (in  
that case, simply looking at all the destination states in the log  
message does not give us the right information).


This strikes me like a useful idea, in particular if you are
jumping between states, or if only some states record logging info.

So I have added this capability.  If you are configuring
the variable `org-log-note-headings', use the %S (capital S) as
a place holder for the old state.

2. Can we put all of those state change history logging messages  
into a drawer like STATE-HIST (when the drawer is defined in org- 
drawers), so it is less intrusive in the file?


I do like the idea to be able to put state changes into a drawer,
but I do not think that making it dependent on what it is org-drawers
is good.  So lets use a separate variable:

If you configure org-log-state-notes-into-drawer, you can get all new
state changes into a drawer (sorry, no automatic wrapping of old ones).

Note that putting state log into a drawer will remove it from
export.  If you want to export state changes, try

#+OPTIONS: d:(LOGBOOK)


Thank you for giving a thought on it.


Thank you for contributing very good ideas!

- Carsten



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[Orgmode] Feature improvement request: state change logging

2009-02-11 Thread Wanrong Lin

Hi,

My TODO sequence is set up as following:

(setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence TODO(t) STARTED(s!) 
WAITING(w@/!) MAYBE(m/!) DELEGATED(g@/!) DEFERRED(d!/!) 
HOLD(h!/!) | DONE(x) CANCELED(c


The state change logging is great, but I wonder whether we can further 
improve it:


1. Can we also include the original state in the log message?
i.e.: instead of having  
- State DEFERRED   [2009-02-11 Wed 11:38]

we can have
- State DEFERRED  from HOLD [2009-02-11 Wed 11:38]

The message will be clearer, and useful even when somebody edited the 
TODO keyword in place without using the org-todo command (in that 
case, simply looking at all the destination states in the log message 
does not give us the right information).


2. Can we put all of those state change history logging messages into a 
drawer like STATE-HIST (when the drawer is defined in org-drawers), so 
it is less intrusive in the file?


Thank you for giving a thought on it.

Wanrong





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