From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Question about repeating events. Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:41:14 -0500 Message-ID: <14256.1326469274@alphaville1> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RljdG-0007sm-0Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:05:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RljdE-0003NG-HR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:05:33 -0500 Received: from g4t0015.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.18]:2980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RljdE-0003Cl-CN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:05:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Wightman of "Fri\, 13 Jan 2012 09\:12\:14 CST." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Brian Wightman Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Sam Auciello Brian Wightman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Sam Auciello wrote: > > I'm trying to set up repeating events to stop repeating after a given d= ate. > > In this case it's classes I'm taking this semester that need to repeat = once > > a week so I enter them like: > > > > *** Programming Workshop > > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 <2012-01-24 Tue 13:30-14:50 +1w>, <2012-01-20 = Fri 13:30-14:50 +1w> > > > > The agenda shows the class being scheduled each tuesday and friday but I > > would like to tell it to stop repeating at the end of the semester. >=20 > Would diary-style datestamps work? >=20 > http://orgmode.org/manual/Timestamps.html#Timestamps >=20 Another possibility is to mark it DONE at the end of the semester and archive the entry. That would prevent it from cluttering up anything except= the archive file. Nick