[Orgmode] bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree)

2009-09-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have a bad habit. How can I defeat it? Often an elipsis (...) is seen at the bottom of a new entry from a remember template. I find myself deleting them, compulsively. I'm not so sure, but I THINK that sometimes this is ok, and I now am afraid I have discovered that at some times a whole

Re: [Orgmode] bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree)

2009-09-01 Thread Carsten Dominik
I would NEVER EVER EVER delete naked ellipses, this is dangerous. Press `C-c C-r' in their vicinity, this should hopefully fix the problem. Otherwise, `M-x show-all' will always do the trick. - Carsten On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: I have a bad habit. How can I

Re: [Orgmode] bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree)

2009-09-01 Thread Scot Becker
I would NEVER EVER EVER delete naked ellipses, this is dangerous. If Carsten's capital letters don't cure you of the habit, I don't know what will. :-) Seriously, try to train yourself to think of those ellipses, as code for everything productive you did in Emacs over the last excruciating hour

Re: [Orgmode] bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree)

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Clemente
El mar, sep 01 2009 a les 11:32, Alan E. Davis va escriure: What's the scoop about elipses?  Which variables are relevant?  Can I defeat this habit by reconfiguring, or do I have to force myself to have better habits? You can change how the ellipsis look so that you are more careful and

Re: [Orgmode] bad habit (deleting elipses in folded tree)

2009-09-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
Well noted. Alan You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. Richard Feynman