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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: deadlines with special option for warning days.
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:35:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b017a14a4ad9fac8618082cd885ef69a@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbh7ah$h9m$1@sea.gmane.org>


On Sep 3, 2007, at 16:56, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> Carsten Dominik schrieb:
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2007, at 18:31, Rainer Stengele wrote:
>>>> How about the following solution.
>>>>
>>>> If you bind org-deadline-warning-days to 0 or a negative number,
>>>> this value (the absolute value of that number) will be enforced
>>>> no matter what.  If it is a positive number, individual lead
>>>> times will overrule it.
>>>>
>>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>> OK - so how would I bind the value for different custom agenda views
>>> to different values?
>>
>> This would be using the options section of an agenda command.
>>
>> Here is a lisp example:
>>
>> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>   '(("a" agenda "" ((org-deadline-warning-days -5)))))
>>
>> It is much easier to work on these custom views through the customize
>> interface, so do M-x customize-variable RET 
>> org-agenda-custom-commands RET
>> or even easier `C-c a C'
>>
>> There you can click INS in the options field and then fill in
>> the variable name and the value you would like it to have.
>>
>> In the Manual, take a look at section 9.6.3 which has examples for 
>> this.
>> Also John Wiegley shows in his document some examples for custom views
>> with local variable settings and how these are made using the 
>> customize
>> interface.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> - Carsten
>
> Hi Carsten,
>
> this is maybe a misunderstanding. I already use a lot of the custom 
> agenda views.
> Example:

Well, your question read

> OK - so how would I bind the value for different custom agenda views
> to different values?

Don;t know how to interpret it differently.

> ...
>         ("d" agenda "X-Agenda 0 days deadline preview"
>          ((org-deadline-warning-days 0))
>          nil
>          ("~/org/agenda0.txt"))
> ...

This will work in 5.08.  Setting org-deadline-warning-days
to 0 or a negative number will overrule any individual lead times
set with the -5d syntax.
>
> I do not want this one to appear because my custom 
> org-deadline-warning-days is 0.
> Did I misunderstand you or is this a bug?

It is not a bug, but the change I describe above is not yet in any 
release.

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-04  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31 11:24 deadlines with special option for warning days Rainer Stengele
2007-08-31 15:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-08-31 16:31   ` Rainer Stengele
2007-09-01 10:29     ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-03 14:56       ` Rainer Stengele
2007-09-04  6:35         ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-09-04  9:24           ` Rainer Stengele

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