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From: Ryan Thompson <rct@thompsonclan.org>
To: Nick Parker <nickp@developernotes.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: State Change with diary-float
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:51:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a4ba2fd1002071251s6a7c4246he8f43da9af0a050c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf06edfd1002071151y653b4623ma4032fcc0e188765@mail.gmail.com>

From the Org Manual:

SCHEDULED
     Meaning: you are planning to start working on that task on the
     given date.

In other words, if you just want to mark the date and time at which an
event (like a meeting) will occur, don't use a scheduled timestamp.
Just use an unadorned timestamp (C-c .).


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Nick Parker <nickp@developernotes.com> wrote:
> All,
> I have several events that occur on a monthly basis where I use diary-float
> sexp for recurrence.  Something like the following:
> Some Meeting
> SCHEDULED: <2010-02-04 Thu <%%(diary-float t 4 1)>>
> I have noticed that while the sexp will correctly reschedule the item for
> me, it only tracks the state of the single entry.  So when I complete the
> task and change it's state to DONE, the item no long repeats the schedule
> for the future.  I therefore tried to remove the DONE and TODO states for my
> repeating events entirely (but left the schedule sexp), however when I view
> my agenda, I see an entry for the current day that says:
> Sched. 4x Some Meeting
>
> Where "Some Meeting" was in the past.  Is there a way to tell it to not
> prompt me for a previously scheduled item, but still use the diary-float
> scheduling for items in the future?
>
> Nick Parker
> www.developernotes.com
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-07 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-07 19:51 State Change with diary-float Nick Parker
2010-02-07 20:51 ` Ryan Thompson [this message]
2010-02-07 20:59   ` Nick Parker

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