From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: Carsten Dominik <carsten@orgmode.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removing DEADLINE and SCHEDULED from a headline
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:15:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <084B1B26-BCB0-4E42-92BF-7A9310452516@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a7cyv5v.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>
Fixed, thanks.
- Carsten
On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> I ran into this a few weeks ago and it's been bugging me.
>
> I reorganized a project which had a deadline on the main task and
> moved
> it down to multiple subtasks in the project.
>
> ,----
> | * TODO Project task
> | DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
> | ** TODO Step 1
> | ** TODO Step 2
> | ...
> | ** TODO Step n
> `----
>
> I decided the DEADLINE really doesn't belong at the top -- since the
> deadline was for step 2 (and a few other tasks)... so I moved it the
> hard way. Instead of cutting it out and pasting it back in the right
> tree I just used C-c C-d and entered the same date on step 2
> (because I
> was moving the date a bit from the original date).
>
> ,----
> | * TODO Project task
> | DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
> | ** TODO Step 1
> | ** TODO Step 2
> | DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
> | ...
> | ** TODO Step n
> `----
>
> Now to remove the deadline from the Project task I just did C-u C-c
> C-d
> on the Project task but this removed all the deadlines in the subtree
> and my deadline in Step 2 (and others) is now gone.
>
> AFAICT SCHEDULED: works the same way. This doesn't feel natural to me
> but I know it is documented this way.
>
> Does the way it works now really make sense or would just removing the
> deadline from the task you are working on be better.
>
> C-c C-d sets a deadline just for this task, so it felt natural to me
> that C-u C-c C-d would remove the deadline just for this task -- but
> that's what I get for not reading the manual (or forgetting since I
> read
> it ;)
>
> Regards,
> Bernt
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2009-08-28 12:34 Removing DEADLINE and SCHEDULED from a headline Bernt Hansen
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