From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [feature request] More flexible repeats
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:58:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zkhuq6e7.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ipoiotee.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net
on Sat Sep 24 2011, Eric Abrahamsen <eric-AT-ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24 2011, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> I think the basic parts of such a language might be:
>>
>> - predicates, e.g. Mon,Wed,Fri; the first week of each month; the first
>> tuesday of the month
>> - periods, e.g. 1 month
>> - repetitions, e.g. 5 times
>
> Looks like you're coming up on the crontab syntax :)
Good point. I don't need a fancy syntax if I can express it with elisp,
of course. Maybe enabling that would be a good first step.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-24 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 22:09 [feature request] More flexible repeats Dave Abrahams
2011-09-24 11:16 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-24 14:18 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-24 15:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-24 15:58 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-09-24 18:20 ` Samuel Wales
2011-09-24 20:58 ` Michael Steeves
2011-09-25 4:29 ` John Wiegley
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