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From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Peter Westlake <peter.westlake@pobox.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: inherited priorities
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:34:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zldz8odu.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241016041.16824.1312919817@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Peter Westlake's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:40:41 +0100")

"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.
>
> There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's
> with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less
> important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen or
> so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask to an
> important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down the list and
> be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything by hand.

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

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-29 14:40 Feature request: inherited priorities Peter Westlake
2009-04-29 15:34 ` Matthew Lundin [this message]
2009-04-29 16:10   ` Peter Westlake
2009-04-29 18:13     ` Matthew Lundin
2009-05-03 16:14 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-05 13:12   ` Peter Westlake
2009-05-05 13:22     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-07 15:20       ` Peter Westlake

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