[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Moving task from one wiki page to an other

[Sacha Chua]

Guy Bencteux <address@hidden> writes:

> http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/emacs/ and in the file
> "planner.el" it is clearly said that we have to use either
> planner-copy-or-move-task or planner-replan-task.

Although the documentation note for planner-copy-or-move-region says:

  Use `planner-replan-task' if you want to change the plan
  page in order to get better completion.

you can actually specify a plan page in the date input, as long as you
type it very carefully. You don't get emacs-wiki page completion
there, but rather date completion. (Should we make that behavior the
default instead?)

> However, planner-replan-task does the job exactly as I axpected and
> it is OK for me. By the way, I do not see how the function
> planner-copy-or-move-region could make the difference between
> "changing date" and "changing plan" and I do not see why
> planner-copy-or-move-region should calls planner-replan-task.

planner-copy-or-move-region will call planner-replan-task if the
specified date isn't actually a date; that is, if (string-match
planner-date-regexp date) is nil. This allows you to use C-c C-c
anyway, although people are strongly encouraged to use
planner-replan-task instead.

Other planner-read-date-using functions behave similarly. For example,
M-x planner-goto prompts for a date page, but you can specify a plan
page. You just won't get completion. I always used it just for date
pages, but apparently some people use it to get to plan pages as well.
Perhaps we should make it complete pages by default?

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