From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Occurance property, or some similar name?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:25:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oc4bxoew.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3ksqujv.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:42:28 -0500")
Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
> I was once one of the many people who apparently originally
> misunderstood what "SCHEDULED" meant, and used to set it to like, an
> appointment time.
>
> It seems the appropriate thing for what I actually meant was to just
> put a timestamp anywhere in the entry and that works out well. A lot of
> people put it on the header apparently, and that seems insane to me.
>
> I kind of miss how nice it was back when I misunderstood how events work
> (escept for all of those non-TODOs staying around forever on my
> agenda..) where I had a dedicated property for this, and pressing
> C-c C-s would always change that property.
>
> What I'm saying I guess is:
> - Is there a popular property name for when something should be
> happening, in a non-TODO way? I've thought of "OCCURANCE" but maybe
> that isn't the best (I suspect not)
There is a special property name for active timestamps: TIMESTAMP. You
can access the first active timestamp in an entry (either with column
view or org-entry-get) via the special property TIMESTAMP. Inactive
timestamps = TIMESTAMP_IA.
> - Maybe if we formalize this property, we should make a command for it?
> Maybe C-c C-S-o?
There is currently a command to change plain active timestamps from the
agenda. (In fact, this will also change SCHEDULED and DEADLINE
timestamps when on a SCHEDULED or DEADLINE line.)
org-agenda-date-prompt (>)
AFAIK, there is no similar built-in function to call on headlines in org
files. One can, however, navigate to the timestamp and use the
Shift-arrow keys or C-c . to change the appointment.
> - It would be nice to formalize this so we could actually steer people
> in the right direction in the docs.
What would you suggest adding to the following pages?
(info "(org) Creating timestamps")
(info "(org) Special properties")
Best,
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-11 22:42 Occurance property, or some similar name? Christopher Allan Webber
2011-04-12 4:22 ` theo
2011-04-12 14:41 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2011-04-12 19:28 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-12 19:25 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2011-04-12 20:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2011-04-13 1:01 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-13 13:07 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2011-04-13 8:19 ` Michael Brand
2011-04-13 13:08 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2011-04-13 14:19 ` Michael Brand
2011-04-13 14:43 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2011-04-13 15:42 ` Michael Brand
2011-04-13 15:57 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2011-04-12 20:00 ` Memnon Anon
2011-04-12 20:24 ` Richard Riley
2011-04-13 15:34 ` Carsten Dominik
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