Re: Re: deadlines with special option for warning days.

From: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: deadlines with special option for warning days.
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:24:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DD2454.6020207@diplan.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b017a14a4ad9fac8618082cd885ef69a@science.uva.nl>

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Carsten Dominik schrieb:
>
> On Sep 3, 2007, at 16:56, Rainer Stengele wrote:
>
>> Carsten Dominik schrieb:
>>>
>>> On Aug 31, 2007, at 18:31, Rainer Stengele wrote:
>>>>> How about the following solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you bind org-deadline-warning-days to 0 or a negative number,
>>>>> this value (the absolute value of that number) will be enforced
>>>>> no matter what.  If it is a positive number, individual lead
>>>>> times will overrule it.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Carsten
>>>>
>>>> OK - so how would I bind the value for different custom agenda views
>>>> to different values?
>>>
>>> This would be using the options section of an agenda command.
>>>
>>> Here is a lisp example:
>>>
>>> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>>   '(("a" agenda "" ((org-deadline-warning-days -5)))))
>>>
>>> It is much easier to work on these custom views through the customize
>>> interface, so do M-x customize-variable RET
>>> org-agenda-custom-commands RET
>>> or even easier `C-c a C'
>>>
>>> There you can click INS in the options field and then fill in
>>> the variable name and the value you would like it to have.
>>>
>>> In the Manual, take a look at section 9.6.3 which has examples for
>>> this.
>>> Also John Wiegley shows in his document some examples for custom views
>>> with local variable settings and how these are made using the customize
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>
>> Hi Carsten,
>>
>> this is maybe a misunderstanding. I already use a lot of the custom
>> agenda views.
>> Example:
>
> Well, your question read
>
>> OK - so how would I bind the value for different custom agenda views
>> to different values?
>
> Don;t know how to interpret it differently.
>
>> ...
>>         ("d" agenda "X-Agenda 0 days deadline preview"
>>          ((org-deadline-warning-days 0))
>>          nil
>>          ("~/org/agenda0.txt"))
>> ...
>
> This will work in 5.08.  Setting org-deadline-warning-days
> to 0 or a negative number will overrule any individual lead times
> set with the -5d syntax.
>>
>> I do not want this one to appear because my custom
>> org-deadline-warning-days is 0.
>> Did I misunderstand you or is this a bug?
>
> It is not a bug, but the change I describe above is not yet in any
> release.
>
> - Carsten
>

excellent. thanks. Looking forward to 5.08.

Rainer

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