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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: Repeating Task Exception
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:24:23 -0400
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Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> David Neu <david@davidneu.com> writes:
>
>> I was wondering if there was a way to add an "exception" to a
>> repeating entry such as
>>
>> Weekly Meeting <2011-05-04 Wed 13:30-14:00 +1w>
>>
>> i..e I'd like to be able to insert a line that indicates when this
>> event will *not* occur.
>>
> That's not currently supported.  To handle this I clone the subtree with
> time shift and remove the meetings that are cancelled.

More complex calendar entries are supported (with limited functionality)
through the use of diary sexps. In particular, the org-diary-class sexp
(part of org-mode) was created to scenarios like the one above:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#org-diary-class

HTH,
Matt