From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-refile: only works on leaves?
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:52:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B0D0C699-DBBB-4A64-A4B3-647FAAFD9972@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478D0983.80902@gmail.com>
On Jan 15, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
> Hi, Carsten,
>
> It seems I found the cause of this.
>
> I have the following in my emacs config:
>
> (setq org-refile-targets '((org-agenda-files . (:maxlevel . 2))))
> (setq org-refile-use-outline-path t)
>
> When using org-refile, the completion suggestions I got is (using
> example in my original example)
>
> Level 1 heading (xyz.org)
> Level 1 heading / Level 2 heading (xyz.org)
>
> Note there is a space between "Level 1 heading" and "(xyz.org)", so
> if I type "Level" and press TAB key, the minibuffer will get a
> completion up to "Level 1 heading" without the space, and I though
> this is a valid selection but org-mode refuses to take it. What is
> actually happening is, org-mode needs the " (xyz.org)" too. so if I
> add a space after "Level 1 heading", and press TAB key again, the
> minibuffer will get a completion to "Level 1 heading (xyz.org)" and
> now org-mode thinks this is a valid selection.
>
> My feeling is the above is a little bit counter-intuitive. If there
> is no multiple files with the same heading "Level 1 heading", I
> would think "Level 1 heading" should be considered a valid selection
> from the completion buffer. What do you think?
In principle, I tend to agree but I don't know how to tweak completion
to act like this. Have you considered to set
(setq org-refile-use-outline-path 'file)
? This would get rid of the problem by moving the file name to the
beginning of the
completion string.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 17:09 org-refile: only works on leaves? Wanrong Lin
2007-12-21 14:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-12-21 19:09 ` Wanrong Lin
2008-01-03 14:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-01-03 15:38 ` Wanrong Lin
2008-01-15 19:29 ` Wanrong Lin
2008-01-16 9:52 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-01-16 15:27 ` Wanrong Lin
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