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From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: inherited priorities
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:13:13 -0500
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"Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com> writes:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:34:37 -0500, "Matthew Lundin"
> <mdl@imapmail.org> said:
>> "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>> > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After
>> > all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of
>> > it must be too.
>
> ...
>
>> Have you checked out the variable org-use-property-inheritance?
>>
>> Also see this section of the manual:
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-inheritance.html#Property-inheritance
>
> Matt,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but priority isn't defined by a property in
> the usual way, so this doesn't work.
>

Oops, sorry. I read "priorities" in your email as properties. 

If the only issue is tag searches, the following works for me - i.e.,
subtrees inherit PRIORITY:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-use-property-inheritance '("PRIORITY"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I haven't tested to see what happens with sorting - my guess is that
this only applies to searches. 

Regards,
Matt