From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Lundin Subject: Re: Feature request: inherited priorities Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:34:37 -0500 Message-ID: <87zldz8odu.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <1241016041.16824.1312919817@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LzBo4-0002tS-Sw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LzBo0-0002t6-DB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42019 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LzBo0-0002t2-8w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:40 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:41068) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LzBnz-0003ZQ-Vw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1241016041.16824.1312919817@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Peter Westlake's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:40:41 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Peter Westlake Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "Peter Westlake" 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