From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Cyclic timestamps for SCHEDULED and DEADLINE Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:07:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZNgY-0000l9-Ac for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:46:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZNgW-0000kl-SF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:46:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZNgW-0000ki-Jq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:46:40 -0400 Received: from [66.249.92.175] (helo=uproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FZNjZ-0004OT-It for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:49:52 -0400 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m2so1500973ugc for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:46:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Dieter Grollmann Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Apr 28, 2006, at 2:33, Dieter Grollmann wrote: > > It's difficult for me to explain this in english, I hope you will > understand what I mean :-) Try my German if you want. :-) > > As third part of my life there are some cyclic tasks (meetings of > an association, comitee of the music school etc) which I normally > cannot defer or omit, even in "states of emergency". > So automatic scheduling or deadlining for cyclic tasks which > would insist on being displayed as TODO until I mark them as DONE > could be helpful for me in such times. Yes I understand. A very basic problem with cyclic scheduling is that if you don't mark the entry DONE, then you can get many of those tasks in your agenda. One simple way would be to create a separate file and just put those cyclic tasks for the next two years in there. Emacs Keyboad macros can be very handy for this: For example: Type * Meeting of the Music association SCHEDULED: <2006-04-28 Fri> The goto the beginning of the first line and define a keyboard macro: C-x ( ; start kbd macro C-k C-k C-k C-k ; kill two lines C-y C-y ; yank back two copies use cursor keys to move to month of second entry time stamp S-up ; to increase the month by one C-a ; to get back to the star of the entry C-x ) ; Finish kbd macro Then execute the kbd macro 24 times to create this entry for the next 2 years. > > Perhaps one day, when you feel bored ... ;-) :-) who knows. - Carsten