Re: [Orgmode] [PATCH] Clean up the description of org-archive-location

[Carsten Dominik]

Another delicious cherry for me to pick, thanks Bernt and Nick.

Bernt,

I think I am ripe for a little lecture about remote repositories
and tracking them, so that I do not need to type the location of
your repo each time... :-)

- Carsten

On Nov 19, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> This removes the ambiguous description that might lead org users
> to try to set this variable without a '::' separator.  Without
> the separated C-c C-x C-S fails with
>
>         Invalid 'org-archive-location'
> ---
> Here's my attempt at cleaning up the documentation of this variable.
>
> This patch is available at git://git.norang.ca/org-mode in the branch
> 'fix-org-archive-location-docs'
>
> -Bernt
>
> lisp/org.el |   24 +++++++++++++-----------
> 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index b660f96..a27b4f1 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -2635,17 +2635,19 @@ If yes, offer to stop it and to save the  
> buffer with the changes."
> (defcustom org-archive-location "%s_archive::"
>   "The location where subtrees should be archived.
>
> -Otherwise, the value of this variable is a string, consisting of two
> -parts, separated by a double-colon.
> -
> -The first part is a file name - when omitted, archiving happens in  
> the same
> -file.  %s will be replaced by the current file name (without  
> directory part).
> -Archiving to a different file is useful to keep archived entries from
> -contributing to the Org-mode Agenda.
> -
> -The part after the double colon is a headline.  The archived  
> entries will be
> -filed under that headline.  When omitted, the subtrees are simply  
> filed away
> -at the end of the file, as top-level entries.
> +The value of this variable is a string, consisting of two parts,
> +separated by a double-colon.  The first part is a filename and
> +the second part is a headline.
> +
> +When the filename is omitted, archiving happens in the same file.
> +%s in the filename will be replaced by the current file
> +name (without the directory part).  Archiving to a different file
> +is useful to keep archived entries from contributing to the
> +Org-mode Agenda.
> +
> +The archived entries will be filed as subtrees of the specified
> +headline.  When the headline is omitted, the subtrees are simply
> +filed away at the end of the file, as top-level entries.
>
> Here are a few examples:
> \"%s_archive::\"
> --
> 1.6.0.4.608.ga9645
>
>
>
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