From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: org-auto-repeat-maybe only updates first timestamp [7.01trans]
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:29:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iq244kq6.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40246.1284650926@iu.edu> (Andrew J. Korty's message of "Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:28:46 -0400")
"Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu> writes:
> Andrew J. Korty <ajk@iu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>>
>> > > If I have multiple timestamps in a TODO item, org-auto-repeat-maybe
>> > > only advances the first one. In the following example, I'd like both
>> > > the SCHEDULED and DEADLINE timestamps to advance when the item is
>> > > marked DONE, but only the SCHEDULED timestamp advances.
>> > >
>> > > * TODO do something by Sunday but not until Friday
>> > > SCHEDULED: <2010-09-17 Fri ++1w> DEADLINE: <2010-09-19 Sun ++1w>
>> > > Why not just drop the SCHEDULED: tag and change the DEADLINE
>> task to > > DEADLINE: <2010-09-19 Sun ++1w -2d>
>> > > This way it won't show up in your agenda until Friday -- 2 days
>> before
>> > it's due.
>>
>> Right, but then it will show up in tags-todo lists before I want it
>> to. An example is renewing my driver's license, for which I could
>> use
>>
>> DEADLINE: <2011-10-12 Wed ++4y -2w>
>>
>> but it would show up in tags-todo lists way before it would make
>> sense to renew. Although I suppose I could set
>> org-agenda-ignore-deadlines to 'all and just rely on the
>> daily/weekly agenda to show them to me ...
>
> Oops, frobbing org-agenda-ignore-deadlines won't help. It works in
> the case of driver's license renewal, but it breaks a different case.
> Say I've been asked to review a document by October 31. So I set a
> deadline of 2010-12-31. But I do want to see it on my tags-todo list
> now because if I had time now, I could review the documents and submit
> my comments well before the deadline.
I assume you mean org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines. In this particular
case you could set that variable to 'far, which causes deadlines to be
displayed only when they fall within the lead time specified in
org-agenda-warning days or (as in the example above) in the timestamp
itself.
Here's an example:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* TODO Review really important document
DEADLINE: <2010-10-31 Sun -2m>
* TODO Review less important document
DEADLINE: <2010-10-31 Sun>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Let's assume the following settings:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'far
org-deadline-warning-days 14)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
With these settings, the first task would show up *today* both in your
agenda and in your TODO list, while the second task would appear in both
places two weeks before the deadline.
That said, I sometimes set both a scheduled and deadline timestamp to
create an extra reminder/safety net, so the original bug you reported is
certainly an issue.
Best,
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-17 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-14 15:01 Bug: org-auto-repeat-maybe only updates first timestamp [7.01trans] Andrew J. Korty
2010-09-16 9:55 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-09-16 14:58 ` Andrew J. Korty
2010-09-16 15:28 ` Andrew J. Korty
2010-09-17 12:29 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-09-17 12:48 ` Andrew J. Korty
2010-09-17 18:47 ` Matt Lundin
2010-09-17 21:34 ` Andrew J. Korty
2010-09-18 2:39 ` Matt Lundin
2010-09-18 13:08 ` Andrew J. Korty
2010-09-17 12:05 ` Matt Lundin
2010-09-17 12:43 ` Andrew J. Korty
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