From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Filtering for effort in org-agenda Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:38:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87tz5aq48u.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87ab72d9xs.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LocJ8-00013y-3R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:39:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LocJ0-00013G-T2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:39:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36944 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LocJ0-00013D-MX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:38:58 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f160.google.com ([209.85.219.160]:43955) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LocJ0-0002g6-3S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:38:58 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so2611094ewy.42 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:38:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ab72d9xs.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> 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: Bernt Hansen Cc: Org Mode List On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote: > > I think I changed that behaviour originally in commit dc43885 > > I was looking for a way to select tasks with no effort so I could > define > an effort before working on them. > > I'd like to retain the ability to find tasks with no effort easily. > There's probably a better solution that the one I came up with. > > -Bernt Are you doing this now using filtering for effort, or a property search for Effort? - Carsten > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > commit dc438851021ba340bbff3462671e2b142ff6bdbf > Author: Carsten Dominik > Date: Tue Nov 11 06:56:32 2008 +0100 > > Treat no effort defined as 0 minutes. > > Bernt Hanses writes: > > This changes the default value for Effort during agenda filtering > so > that an undefined Effort value is treated as 0 instead of nil. > Tasks > with no effort defined now return zero effort when selecting > tasks for > the filter. > > There was effectively no way to select 'tasks with no effort > defined' > using the agenda effort filter. The '<' operator is interpreted as > '<=' and the default effort selection defined in > org-agenda-filter-by-tag starts with zero ("0 0:10 ...") so this > change just treats tasks with no effort defined the same as tasks > with > an effort of 0. > > This allows fast selection of NEXT tasks with no effort defined. > Column view with follow-mode active in the agenda is great for > quickly > filling in the agenda estimated effort values for tasks. Just > display > your Next tasks, then / 0 to select tasks with no effort and enter > column mode (C-c C-x C-c) and fill in your effort values with the > quick keys (0-9) for all of the tasks that have blanks in the > effort > column. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------