Re: [O] Bug: "SCHEDULED: " positioning is fragile [7.8.06 (release_7.8.06.181.ga481)]

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Apr 06 2012, Bastien <bzg-AT-gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Given the following:
>>
>> * TODO Some headline
>> SCHEDULED: <2012-04-05 Thu>
>>
>> If I add body text between the headline and the SCHEDULED: line, some
>> things work, but others don't.  
>
> See this footnote in the section "8.3.1 Inserting deadlines or
> schedules" of the manual:
>
>    (1) The `SCHEDULED' and `DEADLINE' dates are inserted on the line
> right below the headline.  Don't put any text between this line and the
> headline.

That doesn't make it right.  This is a serious usability bug and a
newbie trap.

As I mentioned in my report, if some of the commands can handle it,
there's no reason all of them shouldn't handle it.  The only other valid
interpretation is that those commands that are handling it as I expect
are broken and they're changing things that should really be treated as
body text and just happen to look like a SCHEDULED line.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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