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From: Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recurring tasks and arbitrary properties
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:56:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871svvfbau.fsf@luisa.c0t0d0s0.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tq3b4ht.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:37:02 +0100")

Hello,

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> I want to 'hide' the value of the SCHEDULED property and later restore
>> it. I can use inactive time stamps. But that means that I have to change
>> the value when deactivating the task and again, later when I activate
>> the task again. But it would have been nicer without doing so ;).
>
> It depends on what means "later". If it means "right after doing
> something to the headline", you could also store the actual time stamp
> in the lexical closure of a call-back function, without using a property
> drawer.
>
> There is `org-toggle-timestamp-type', too. We could extend it to process
> time stamp strings.
later means a lot later ;). Maybe months or even years. My personal use
case is, that I have dozens of recurring tasks. Now I leave the country
for a few months. The tasks only make sense, when I am here. So I want to
disable them and enable them, when I'm back. I can't use
org-cancel-repeater, because that loses the repeater.

There was a question on the ml about disabling recurring tasks many
moons ago. I will incorporate my new knowledge about properties into my
functions and then reply to that question.

Regards
hmw

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-22 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-21 19:06 Recurring tasks and arbitrary properties Michael Welle
2017-01-22 13:09 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-22 13:17   ` Michael Welle
2017-01-22 13:20     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-22 13:27       ` Michael Welle
2017-01-22 13:37         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-22 13:56           ` Michael Welle [this message]
2017-01-22 14:01             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-22 14:08               ` Michael Welle

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