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From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Subject: Re: How to say "I did that yesterday?"
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:01:34 -0800
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on Tue Nov 22 2011, Erik Hetzner <egh-AT-e6h.org> wrote:

> At Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:40:35 -0800,
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> 
>
>> 
>> I often discover that I completed something a few days ago and I would
>> like to mark it done with the appropriate date as though I had marked it
>> done in the past.  That means, e.g., for a repeating event it might
>> repeat sooner than if it had been done today.  Is there a way?
>
> M-x org-todo-yesterday ?
>
> If there is a way to do this for days further in the past, I would
> welcome it! I also find myself wanting to do this often. Right now I
> just mark it done, then manually adjust the log entries.
>
> best, Erik
> Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>.


org-todo-yesterday clearly shows how it could be done.  Heh, we could
have org-todo respond to negative prefix args by shifting the date back
that many days and then prompting for state as though `C-u' had been
pressed.

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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