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On Tue, 5 May 2009 15:22:04 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> said:
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> I think that any kind of priority inheritance would be defeating the
> purpose of priorities, by inflation.
>
> I think what you are trying to do is to assign a whole project subtree
> high importance, and I would suggest to use tags for this purpose,
> which also support inheritance, and which allow very flexible
> filtering.

That is what I'm trying to do, yes. And since there are so many
things like tags and categories that are inherited, and allow
sorting, it's reasonable for there to be something else that
isn't inherited. I'll have a look at the agenda commands.

Thank you,

Peter.