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From: Jason Dunsmore <emacs-orgmode@dunsmor.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, dominik@uva.nl, bzg@altern.org
Subject: Schedule event
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:05:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h6raiwc.fsf@riotblast.dunsmor.com> (raw)

In the Org manual, a distinction is made between items that have a
timestamp with the "SCHEDULED" keyword and items that have a plain
timestamp:

  "Scheduling an item in Org-mode should not be understood in the same way
  that we understand scheduling a meeting. Setting a date for a meeting is
  just a simple appointment, you should mark this entry with a simple
  plain timestamp, to get this item shown on the date where it
  applies. This is a frequent misunderstanding by Org users. In Org-mode,
  scheduling means setting a date when you want to start working on an
  action item."

http://orgmode.org/org.html#Deadlines-and-scheduling

I call these items with plain timestamps "events".  These are items that
come and go on the agenda whether or not I do anything.  I add "events"
to my agenda pretty often, so I'd like to schedule them using the same
interface I use to schedule SCHEDULED items.

Someone on IRC suggested that I use the following function:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun org-schedule-event ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((org-scheduled-string ""))
    (org-schedule)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

However, it inserts an extra space.  Example:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Test
   <2011-08-05 Fri>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

instead of:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Test
  <2011-08-05 Fri>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I could hack together a fix for this, but I was thinking that perhaps
the org-schedule function should be made more general so that it can be
combined with the org-deadline function, which has much of the same
code, and used to insert plain timestamps as well.  Thoughts?

next             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-05 17:05 Jason Dunsmore [this message]
2011-08-06  6:19 ` Schedule event Carsten Dominik
2011-08-06 15:00   ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-06 18:15     ` suvayu ali
2011-08-06 18:59       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-06 19:42         ` suvayu ali
2011-08-07  6:12           ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-06 19:45         ` Jason Dunsmore
2011-08-07  6:14           ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-06 19:38     ` Jason Dunsmore
2011-08-07 22:06   ` Jason Dunsmore
2011-08-24 10:26     ` Bastien
2011-08-26 12:08       ` Greg Troxel

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