[emacs-wiki-discuss] RE: confused by remember-region

[Raymond Zeitler]

Hi Ren:

Great question.  I wondered that too when I first started to use Planner.

I always use "C-u M-x remember" from within a planner project page and
accept the contents of the remember buffer as is.  I'm nervous about editing
/ composing text inside a temporary buffer because it's not easy to save
drafts.

Although I've gotten used to my method, I'd welcome a function that I could
call that would create a note directly from a region, without the need for a
prefix argument, and without the need to create a temporary buffer in which
I need to press C-c C-c.

Unfortunately, M-x remember-region isn't a replacement for C-u M-x remember
C-c C-c.  At least not for me.  I wish it were.  The problem is that M-x
remember-region doesn't write a note on the day page, despite prompting for
a date.  Nor is it compatible with planner-multi since it doesn't prompt for
a project page.  So maybe this is why M-x remember-region isn't the
Recommended Way.

All the best!


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Raymond Zeitler <address@hidden>


Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:56:36 +0800
From: Ren Lifeng <address@hidden>
Subject: [emacs-wiki-discuss] confused by remember-region
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I have a question about remember-region.

document of that function says:
> If called from within the remember buffer, BEG and END are ignored,
> and the entire buffer will be remembered.

> This function is meant to be called from the *Remember* buffer.
> If you want to remember a region, supply a universal prefix to

I never call remember-region from the *Remember* buffer. Can someone
kindly give me a typical scenery where we should do this?

a message in the mail list says:
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-wiki-discuss/2004-03/msg00097.html)
> This is just M-x remember, now. C-u M-x remember remembers the region
> but lets you edit it first. M-x remember-region goes straight ahead
> and remembers the region.

I like this one, calling remember-region from any buffer, remember the
region without modification. but is this conflicts with the above doc
and thus is not the recommended way?

Thanks in advance!