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From: Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com>
To: James Harkins <jamshark70@zoho.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Deadline warning period, and property to override it
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 07:50:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi7hv15p.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15fd23327dd.d32ff2b916447.6216809005725856971@zoho.com> (James Harkins's message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2017 10:54:48 +0800")

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On Sunday, 19 Nov 2017 at 10:54, James Harkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Two questions about deadline items in the agenda.
>
> 1. The default warning period for upcoming deadlines is 14 days. There
> must be a variable to control this, but I'm having trouble finding it
> in the manual.

org-deadline-warning-days

> 2. Is there a property to override the warning period for specific
> headlines? For example, if I have a project due on a certain date, a
> two-week warning makes sense. But, for paying the rent, a two-week
> warning means that I see the warning for half the month, which is a
> bit too much. I'd like to make that one 7 days.

you can specify the warning time directly in the time stamp.  See
example in the info manual (section 8.3: deadlines and scheduling).

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.3-162-gde289d

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-20  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-19  2:54 Deadline warning period, and property to override it James Harkins
2017-11-20  7:50 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2017-11-20 10:33   ` James Harkins

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