From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:31:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty1mc9x2.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJYbDanoZkDd0-+oixWV9rW=eHW3O379kVBiGhP0epy6NhWkQA@mail.gmail.com> (Jay McCarthy's message of "Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:38:35 -0600")
Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy@gmail.com> writes:
> I wish that I could write +1bd on a repeating tasks so that it skips
> from Friday to Monday.
>
> I looked into implementing this myself, but there are a lot of places
> (29) where the regexp [dwmy] is used and it scares me off because I
> think I'll break something. It almost seems like you should be able to
> add a new 'what' to 'org-timestamp-change' and it will Just Work. But
> the algorithm in there would need to change a bit, because it would
> try to change by a number of days, but then adjust based on the advic
> day of the week.
>
> For now, I just manually complete the task on Saturdays and Sundays...
> but it seems wrong to get credit in the TODO -> DONE log when I really
> didn't do it :)
You can also just adjust the date with S-right until the next
occurrence - this doesn't mark it DONE. Then you don't get 'credit' for
doing it on weekends.
HTH,
Bernt
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-18 5:38 Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week Jay McCarthy
2012-03-18 6:29 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-18 13:30 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-03-18 13:31 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
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