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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: New behavior when marking tasks complete?


From: Paul D. Kraus
Subject: Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: New behavior when marking tasks complete?
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:38:52 -0400
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johnsu01 wrote:

"Charles philip Chan" <address@hidden> writes:

On 30 Jun
2005, address@hidden wrote:

planner-sort-tasks moves the point around. dev/434 makes sure to keep the
point on the same task if planner-sort-tasks is called, but I don't know
whether that's reasonable behavior. What do people think?
I think it should go to the next open task.


Why?
I think the task should stay where it is after being marked complete, and point
should stay where it was when the user marked the task complete.
Going to the next open task makes a lot of assumptions about the way someone's
planner page looks. Of all the fifteen or so tasks I marked complete at work
today, there were zero cases where the next task I wanted to go to was the next
open task. There were situations where if it went to the next open task, it
would have skipped over several in progress tasks and delegated tasks, which
probably would have caused some scrolling.

I don't think it's going to be easy to predict where people are going to go
next, so I think it's best to leave the choice up to them. Leave them in a
position where they can decide, without doing something disorienting. By
default anyway.

I agree the user should be in control of his workflow. There could always be a variable that would set the behavior.

Paul








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