From: "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: inherited priorities
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 14:12:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241529169.9772.1313827043@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C2BA62A-8B8F-484C-BD53-2FFE57EC3AAB@gmail.com>
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.
> >
> >
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2009-04-29 18:13 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-05-03 16:14 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-05 13:12 ` Peter Westlake [this message]
2009-05-05 13:22 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-07 15:20 ` Peter Westlake
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