* Feature request: inherited priorities @ 2009-04-29 14:40 Peter Westlake 2009-04-29 15:34 ` Matthew Lundin 2009-05-03 16:14 ` Carsten Dominik 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Peter Westlake @ 2009-04-29 14:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of it must be too. There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen or so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask to an important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down the list and be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything by hand. Hope this is a reasonable idea, Peter. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Feature request: inherited priorities 2009-04-29 14:40 Feature request: inherited priorities Peter Westlake @ 2009-04-29 15:34 ` Matthew Lundin 2009-04-29 16:10 ` Peter Westlake 2009-05-03 16:14 ` Carsten Dominik 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Matthew Lundin @ 2009-04-29 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Westlake; +Cc: emacs-orgmode "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com> writes: > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After all, > if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of it must > be too. > > There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's > with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less > important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen or > so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask to an > important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down the list and > be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything by hand. Have you checked out the variable org-use-property-inheritance? Also see this section of the manual: http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-inheritance.html#Property-inheritance - Matt ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Feature request: inherited priorities 2009-04-29 15:34 ` Matthew Lundin @ 2009-04-29 16:10 ` Peter Westlake 2009-04-29 18:13 ` Matthew Lundin 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Peter Westlake @ 2009-04-29 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Matthew Lundin; +Cc: emacs-orgmode On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:34:37 -0500, "Matthew Lundin" <mdl@imapmail.org> said: > "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com> writes: > > > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After > > all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of > > it must be too. ... > Have you checked out the variable org-use-property-inheritance? > > Also see this section of the manual: > > http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-inheritance.html#Property-inheritance Matt, Thanks for the suggestion, but priority isn't defined by a property in the usual way, so this doesn't work. Regards, Peter. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Feature request: inherited priorities 2009-04-29 16:10 ` Peter Westlake @ 2009-04-29 18:13 ` Matthew Lundin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Matthew Lundin @ 2009-04-29 18:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Westlake; +Cc: emacs-orgmode "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com> writes: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:34:37 -0500, "Matthew Lundin" > <mdl@imapmail.org> said: >> "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com> writes: >> >> > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After >> > all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of >> > it must be too. > > ... > >> Have you checked out the variable org-use-property-inheritance? >> >> Also see this section of the manual: >> >> http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-inheritance.html#Property-inheritance > > Matt, > > Thanks for the suggestion, but priority isn't defined by a property in > the usual way, so this doesn't work. > Oops, sorry. I read "priorities" in your email as properties. If the only issue is tag searches, the following works for me - i.e., subtrees inherit PRIORITY: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq org-use-property-inheritance '("PRIORITY")) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I haven't tested to see what happens with sorting - my guess is that this only applies to searches. Regards, Matt ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Feature request: inherited priorities 2009-04-29 14:40 Feature request: inherited priorities Peter Westlake 2009-04-29 15:34 ` Matthew Lundin @ 2009-05-03 16:14 ` Carsten Dominik 2009-05-05 13:12 ` Peter Westlake 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-05-03 16:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Westlake; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Hi Peter, Matt, priorities cannot be inherited. - Carsten On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake wrote: > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After > all, > if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of it must > be too. > > There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's > with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less > important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen > or > so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask to an > important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down the list > and > be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything by hand. > > Hope this is a reasonable idea, > > Peter. > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Feature request: inherited priorities 2009-05-03 16:14 ` Carsten Dominik @ 2009-05-05 13:12 ` Peter Westlake 2009-05-05 13:22 ` Carsten Dominik 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Peter Westlake @ 2009-05-05 13:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode On Sun, 3 May 2009 18:14:38 +0200, "Carsten Dominik" <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> said: > Hi Peter, Matt, > > priorities cannot be inherited. Fair enough! In that case, would it be possible to take the default priority for a new task from the parent task? Peter. > - Carsten > > On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake wrote: > > > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After > > all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of > > it must be too. > > > > There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's > > with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less > > important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen > > or so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask > > to an important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down > > the list and be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything > > by hand. > > > > Hope this is a reasonable idea, > > > > Peter. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies > > to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Feature request: inherited priorities 2009-05-05 13:12 ` Peter Westlake @ 2009-05-05 13:22 ` Carsten Dominik 2009-05-07 15:20 ` Peter Westlake 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-05-05 13:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Westlake; +Cc: emacs-orgmode On May 5, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Peter Westlake wrote: > > On Sun, 3 May 2009 18:14:38 +0200, "Carsten Dominik" > <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> said: >> Hi Peter, Matt, >> >> priorities cannot be inherited. > > Fair enough! > > In that case, would it be possible to take the default priority for a > new task from the parent task? I think that any kind of priority inheritance would be defeating the purpose of priorities, by inflation. I think what you are trying to do is to assign a whole project subtree high importance, and I would suggest to use tags for this purpose, which also support inheritance, and which allow very flexible filtering. HTH - Carsten > > Peter. > >> - Carsten >> >> On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake wrote: >> >>> I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After >>> all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of >>> it must be too. >>> >>> There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's >>> with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less >>> important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen >>> or so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask >>> to an important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down >>> the list and be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything >>> by hand. >>> >>> Hope this is a reasonable idea, >>> >>> Peter. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies >>> to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Feature request: inherited priorities 2009-05-05 13:22 ` Carsten Dominik @ 2009-05-07 15:20 ` Peter Westlake 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Peter Westlake @ 2009-05-07 15:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode On Tue, 5 May 2009 15:22:04 +0200, "Carsten Dominik" <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> said: ... > I think that any kind of priority inheritance would be defeating the > purpose of priorities, by inflation. > > I think what you are trying to do is to assign a whole project subtree > high importance, and I would suggest to use tags for this purpose, > which also support inheritance, and which allow very flexible > filtering. That is what I'm trying to do, yes. And since there are so many things like tags and categories that are inherited, and allow sorting, it's reasonable for there to be something else that isn't inherited. I'll have a look at the agenda commands. Thank you, Peter. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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