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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Marking a task done
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:09:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eef05d1413b4196709d21df2611048cc@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <470AF3FE.7090009@gmail.com>

I have to agree with the other posters that this seems to be the wrong
idea.  First of all, the danger is reasonably large that you
mark an entry DONE by accident, and then you will loose all state info 
in the subtree.

Even the other way round, marking a parent DONE when all children are
is not something I would recommend.  Because that assumes that your
planning is *complete* in the sense that the set of subtasks is
complete.  I like to stand still for a moment when all these subtasks
are DONE, to decide if this really finishes the parent and then marking
it DONE.

- Carsten

On Oct 9, 2007, at 5:22, Wanrong Lin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have not followed very closely on the "dependency" thread that is 
> hot now. But I guess my wish here probably relates to it. The feature 
> I wish for is:
>
> When a TODO item is marked "DONE", all TODO items under that tree are 
> automatically marked as "DONE". More generically, the user should be 
> able to customize what states (for me, that is "DONE", "CANCELED", 
> "SUSPENDED", "DELEGATED") will affect the whole subtree like "DONE".
>
> Someone in the "dependency" thread has raised similar features, but I 
> wish this can be implemented before the big "dependency" plan is 
> sorted out. :-)
>
> Wanrong
>
>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-09 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-09  3:22 Marking a task done Wanrong Lin
2007-10-09  7:18 ` Christian Egli
2007-10-09  9:16 ` Richard G Riley
2007-10-09 11:00   ` Bastien
     [not found]     ` <b71b18520710090730i20ebb1a7h7562072cd9890fca@mail.gmail.com>
2007-10-10 17:14       ` Bastien
2007-10-09 10:58 ` Bastien
2007-10-09 16:09 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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