From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Peter Westlake <peter.westlake@pobox.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: inherited priorities
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:22:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E4BE73E8-30A4-43D0-9FCB-62AA9A7EBE8B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241529169.9772.1313827043@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On May 5, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
>
> On Sun, 3 May 2009 18:14:38 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> said:
>> Hi Peter, Matt,
>>
>> priorities cannot be inherited.
>
> Fair enough!
>
> In that case, would it be possible to take the default priority for a
> new task from the parent task?
I think that any kind of priority inheritance would be defeating
the purpose of priorities, by inflation.
I think what you are trying to do is to assign a whole project
subtree high importance, and I would suggest to use tags for
this purpose, which also support inheritance, and which allow
very flexible filtering.
HTH
- Carsten
>
> Peter.
>
>> - Carsten
>>
>> On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Hope this is a reasonable idea,
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>>
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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
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 [this message]
2009-05-07 15:20 ` Peter Westlake
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