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From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Org-Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>
Subject: Re: A much simpler way of handling dependent tasks
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:07:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DC80FBD-4668-4796-A150-643BDB7D7EAE@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4D68F7-625A-472C-9D89-8D6766D61C76@uva.nl>

On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> So my feeling is that switching from one not-done state to
> another not-done state should not be blocked at all.
> In fact, I feel the same for the straight TODO dependencies.
>
> I have now adapted John's mechanism in the following way:
>
> - You are free to change between the different non-done states
>
> - Entries that cannot be switched to DONE will be greyed in
>  the agenda, but you can still use the agenda to switch them
>  between not-done states.
>
> - If you call `C-c C-t' (or `t' in the agenda) with a
>  tripple C-u prefix, any blocking will be circumvented
>  for the upcoming state change.  This is good if you
>  want to cancel such a tree, before all subitems are done.
>
> I think this is good, and I hope that John agrees.

Very much so, that's a great extension.  I use checkboxes like Rainer  
does constantly, for "lightweight dependent" tasks.  I'll make use of  
this extension a great deal.

John

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-26 21:16 A much simpler way of handling dependent tasks John Wiegley
2009-01-26 23:48 ` Oliver Charles
2009-01-27  1:18   ` Jesse Alama
2009-01-27  6:46     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-27  6:47 ` John Wiegley
2009-01-27  6:47 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-27  7:31   ` John Wiegley
2009-01-27  7:43     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-27 22:51 ` Mike Newman
2009-01-30 15:02 ` Rainer Stengele
2009-01-30 17:37   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-30 20:07     ` John Wiegley [this message]

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