[emacs-wiki-discuss] Some bugs and feature requests

[Charles Phlip Chan]

Damn you sacha, first you got me hooked to emacs-wiki/planner-mode and
now Gnus for mail as well as news. You will be receiving a bill for my
addiction treatment. ;-)

Anyway here are a few bugs that I discovered:

(1) Planner-cyclic is incompatable with both planner-notes-index and
    bbdb-anniversary.
    
    Here is the output for bbdb-anniversary-

 Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  regexp-quote(nil)
  planner-find-task(nil)
  planner-cyclic-create-task-maybe("2004.04.20" "Birthday: Philip Chan (74th)")
  #[(task-string) "     .0 Pro.

    Here is the one for planner-notes-index-

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  string-match("\\`\\([1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\\)\\.\\([0-9]+\\)\\.\\([0-9]+\\)\\'" 
nil)
  planner-cyclic-create-tasks-maybe()
  run-hooks(text-mode-hook emacs-wiki-mode-hook planner-mode-hook)
  apply(run-hooks (text-mode-hook emacs-wiki-mode-hook planner-mode-hook))
  run-mode-hooks(planner-mode-hook)
  planner-mode()
  planner-notes-index("2004.04.01" "2004.04.20")
  planner-notes-index-months("1")
* call-interactively(planner-notes-index-months)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

(2) After exiting a bbdb buffer that was followed from a bbdb link, it
    would invoke brower-url. This is very annoying. Gnus links are
    fine.

(3) I haven't try to goto a plan page from the calendar in a long
    time, but now it shows up in the calendar window itself. I do have
    planner-use-other-window set to t.

(4) The diary section of the published web page looks horrible-
    everything is concanted to one line. Cal-desk entries are even
    worst due to the tables code. 

Here are a few feature requests:

(1) Category and topic support in notes will great. I know there is
    planner-notes but it doesn't work too well. It would be nice to be
    able to generate a buffer with all notes in a category or topic
    with links back to the originating page. It would also be nice to
    be able to goto the previous or next notes with the same
    topic. This is kind of like journal-mode

(2) planner-bibl would be nice.

(3) An alist of associated programs and file extensions to open file
    links would be nice. Maybe we can just use mailcap entries?

(4) I think planner-index should should use #title for the link names
    if it is defined on the wiki page.

Thanks for your attention,

Charles

-- 
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse
for some of the brain-damages of minix.
(Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)

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