From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian van den Broek Subject: Re: View inherited DEADLINEs in agenda Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:35:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20111107120311.GA6246@hydrogen.black.hole> <834nygktvh.fsf@yahoo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNuH9-0001k0-K2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:36:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNuH5-0004fL-Fq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:36:15 -0500 Received: from mail-vx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:32770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNuH5-0004f3-AT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:36:11 -0500 Received: by vcbfl15 with SMTP id fl15so7014vcb.0 for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:36:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Fabrizio Chiarello On 7 November 2011 16:29, Carsten Dominik wrote= : > > On Nov 7, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > >> Fabrizio Chiarello writes: >> >> >>> I have many tasks with a DEADLINE, and I wish to have their subtasks to >>> inherit such DEADLINE. To this aim, I set: >>> >>> =A0(setq org-use-property-inheritance (quote ("DEADLINE"))) >>> >> >>> The problem is that the agenda only shows deadlines for the tasks that >>> define them >> >> is DEADLINE =A0a property that can be inherited? > > Deadlines can currently *not* be inherited. =A0I would probably advice > against implementing this because of performance issues that would > result for the construction of the agenda. > > - Carsten Hi all, Here's a thought: what about a function which scans a subtree of an item that has a deadline and adds that same deadline to any descendants that lack a deadline? It seems to me that this would, via a one time user intervention, meet the OP's need, without the constant overhead about which Carsten is concerned. It further occurred to me that invoked without arguments, it would prompt the user for each item without deadline, with a prefix argument, apply all the deadlines automatically, and, with a numeric prefix n, automatically apply the alterations n-levels down. Best, Brian vdB