[Orgmode] Re: Advice sought on managing decision alternatives.

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Tom,

I am now looking at org-decision and start to integrate it.

There is one point I'd like to discuss.

My preferred way to do the integration is opening a new hacking door
which will not require changes to org.el for other people doing  
similar stuff.

So my idea would be to search for

"^#\\+\\(\\([a-zA-Z]+\\)_\\)?TODO"

when scanning the buffer, i.e. that any keyword could precede TODO in  
such a line.

I would then like to call the filter hook, using that keyword as  
interpretation.

WIth you patch, we have right now

CHOOSE    as the prefix
choseness as the interpretation
org-decision as the name of the module.

My request would be to maybe use `choose' also as the
interpretation symbol, or, alternatively, CHOSENESS
as the prefix.

For customizing org-todo-keywords, instead of explicitly
offering `choseness', maybe we can use a symbol field
where people can type into.

That would turn your patch into a generally useful system
of hooks where other ideas could be implemented as well.

What do you think?

- Carsten

On Jan 31, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote:

> Here is org-decisions.  "All 68 tests ran successfully".  I hope it is
> satisfactory.  If it's not, please let me know.
>
> Please find attached:
> * org-decisions.el
> * diffs to org.el
> * test-org-decisions.el.
> * 6 example files in testing
>
> A few notes:
>
> ****** Test files
>
> I included 6 example files that I used in testing, and my test file
> test-org-decisions.el.
>
> test-org-decisions.el uses my tester rtest, which is unfortunately in
> flux at the moment.  Still, I felt it would be best to make it
> publicly available.
>
> ****** Use of cl
>
> I used cl in org-decisions.el.  I hope that's not a problem, but if it
> is I can rewrite the parts that use cl.
>
> * pushnew
> * position
> * destructuring-bind
> * defstruct
>
> ****** Use of allout
>
> org-decisions.el and test-org-decisions.el use allout for structuring.
> I removed the "mode: allout" line so that they can be read without
> allout present.
>
>        Tom Breton (Tehom)
> <org-decisions.el><org.el.diff><test-org- 
> decisions.el><simple.org><w-1-chosen.org><w-2- 
> types.org><nonautomatic.org><no-sibs.org><w-some-nils.org>