From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Cannot reschedule task with repeater Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:27 -0500 Message-ID: <87d3zc29j0.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: <08CB54C5-C25E-4128-9F36-4319CA9D1BFD@gmail.com> <873a0a2r50.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NpBh4-00073O-Rk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:42 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45967 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpBh3-00072D-Tc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpBh2-0005tk-KW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:41 -0500 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:50285) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpBh2-0005tD-IK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <873a0a2r50.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Matt Lundin's message of "Mon\, 08 Mar 2010 20\:57\:47 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Matt Lundin Cc: Tom , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik Matt Lundin writes: > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Tom wrote: >> >>> It's not clear to me in case of a timestamp like this >>> >>> <2010-03-08 H 21:30 .+1d> >>> >>> why can't the reschedule feature change the date/time part only >>> and leave the repeater part intact? Why does it have to throw the >>> error "Cannot reschedule task with repeater"? >>> >>> I see no compelling reason for not allowing rescheduling in this case. >>> Maybe an option could be added which the user could set if he wants >>> to allow rescheduling even in case of schedules with repeater. >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> there is no compelling reason except a technical reason. It was >> kind of hard to make this work because of the way scheduling >> and deadlining is implemented. When I added the error message, >> it was because that seemed better than removing the repeater silently. >> >> I have now removed this limitation, because, as you say, it >> really should not be there.D > > This is wonderful news! I've been wishing for this functionality for a > long time. Thanks to Tom for asking and thanks to Carsten, as always, > for implementing it. Cool! Now I can get rid of this 11 month old task... Thanks Carsten!! ** CANCELLED org-mode Fix scheduling of tasks with repeaters :CANCELLED: CLOSED: [2010-03-09 Tue 17:43] :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 2:00 :END: - State "CANCELLED" from "TODO" [2010-03-09 Tue 17:43] \\ Done by Carsten [2009-04-09 Thu] Tasks with a deadline date and repeater don't allow easy creation of a SCHEDULED: entry. Error is "org-schedule: Cannot reschedule task with repeater, please do that by hand" -Bernt