From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: Occurance property, or some similar name? Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:25:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87oc4bxoew.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <87d3ksqujv.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33600) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9jDP-0004Ya-9j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:25:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9jDN-0008Me-Ox for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:25:31 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:55378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9jDN-0008MW-M9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:25:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d3ksqujv.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:42:28 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Christopher Allan Webber 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