Re: Re: postponing todos

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: ignotus@freemail.hu, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: postponing todos
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:43:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54364bf1d0a7b502a17e72aaebb6287f@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdfd0bf367bf3f35cc14c9679a447853@science.uva.nl>

My apologies, my previous post contains two errors.

On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:19, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Aug 11, 2007, at 16:29, ignotus@freemail.hu wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Regarding 'Re: [Orgmode] postponing todos'; Carsten Dominik adds:
>>
>>
>>>> I would like to have a solution for the following problem: I browse
>>>> TODOs in my agenda view and I would like to postpone them, so
>>>> agenda buffers don't list them until a certain date. [....]
>>
>>> This is what scheduling is for, and then you use the daily/weekly
>>> agenda instead of the todo list to see those entries.  To schedule,
>>> [....]
>>
>> Dear Carsten, your reply was as always most helpful and full of
>> information, thanks.  However that is not good for me.  I use
>> org-tags-view all the time, because that way only those tasks get 
>> listed
>> that I can actually do (based on context).  I would like to have an
>> option, that when turned on means that org-tags-view lists all the 
>> TODOs
>> that aren't scheduled in the future.
>
> This can be achieved, as has been shown by you and by Bastien, using
> special user-defined commands.
>
> Another option, maybe simpler, is to use the local options in agenda
> custom commands to insert a function into `org-agenda-skip-function'.
>
> For example, I can write this function:
>
> (defun org-agenda-skip-if-scheduled ()
>   "Function that can be used in `org-agenda-skip-function',
> to skip entries that have been scheduled."
>   (let (beg end)
>     (org-back-to-heading t)
>     (setq beg (point))         ; beginning of headline
>     (outline-next-heading)
>     (setq end (point))         ; end of entry below heading
>     (goto-char beg)
>     (if (re-search-forward org-scheduled-time-regexp end t)
>         end   ; skip, and continue search after END

This must be "(1- end)" instead of "end".

>       nil     ; Don't skip, use this entry.
> )))
>
> and then define a custom command like this:
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>     '(("b" tags "@SHOP"
>         ((org-agenda-skip-function org-agenda-skip-if-scheduled)))))

org-agenda-skip-if-scheduled must be quoted, thus:

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
     '(("b" tags "@SHOP"
         ((org-agenda-skip-function 'org-agenda-skip-if-scheduled)))))

- Carsten

>
> org-agenda-skip-function should *never* be set with `setq' or so,
> but you can use the options field in custom commands to temporarily
> assign a value.
>
> The next version will have two functions,
> org-agenda-skip-if-scheduled and
> org-agenda-skip-if-scheduled-or-deadline
> built-in, so it will be easier to find entries that have no deadline 
> and/or
> have not been scheduled.  For your specific application, I guess you
> also have to look at the timestamp and see if it is in the future.
> Having seen your other lisp code, I guess you can do this yourself.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
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