Re: Gnorb and org-refile-use-outline-path

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> > would it make sense to provide an Gnorb version of the
> > org-refile-use-outline-path option (with a non-nil default value)?
> >
> > I find the current dialog to which heading to associate an article
> > confusing because it doesn't show me the full paths.  I thought things
> > are broken until I studied the code and found
> > org-refile-use-outline-path.  Maybe Org fans are not suprised, I dunno.
>
> Oh, inside `gnorb-gnus-outgoing-do-todo'?

I wanted it for `gnorb-gnus-incoming-do-todo', but yes.

> Sure, I'd be happy to add that. You think t would be a reasonable
> default? I'd never noticed since my org-refile seems to have been
> taken over by helm.

Helm is the better interface here, the vanilla completion doesn't show
all candidates unless you enter parts of the path.

Anyway, the only difference between org-refile-use-outline-path -> t and
org-refile-use-outline-path -> 'file seems to be that t uses paths of
the format

  x/y/z/ (todo.org)

while 'file uses

  todo.org/x/y/z/

'file behaves much better IMHO: it feels more logical, while t also has
some issues, for example in one case I got something illegal like

  x/y/z/ (todo.org) (todo.org)

Also when hitting tab, often the cursor lands after (todo.org), and you
have to move it after /z/ to add something to the path.

So I would suggest 'file as default, but note I only tried a couple of
times.  Dunno if this setting influences how Helm behaves - it would
hopefully just ignore it.


Michael.