Re: if both schedule and deadline, appear only once in agenda

[Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:36:42 +0100
Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
> 
> > But maybe I should not :-). But here goes: I plan to start working on
> > an item by date X -> schedule stamp. The item has a deadline, so ->
> > deadline.
> 
> For that I use `org-deadline-warning-days'.  I start the deadline when
> it shows up in my agenda.  The default value for this is 14, but you can
> set a value for each deadline like this:

I'm all on Gijs' side in using SCHEDULED and DEADLINE just the way he does.
A deadline warning for me describes some different kind of animal.

Nevertheless: If both SCHEDULED and DEADLINE passed by and no work was
done either there was no real deadline or there is a new deadline or
now you're allowed to remove the task silently.  

:-)

Detlef

> 
>   DEADLINE: <2004-02-29 Sun -10d>
> 
> Meaning that you should start the deadline 10 days before the deadline.
> 
> ,----[ (info "(org)Deadlines and scheduling") ]
> | You can specify a different lead time for warnings for a specific
> | deadlines using the following syntax.  Here is an example with a
> | warning period of 5 days `DEADLINE: <2004-02-29 Sun -5d>'.
> `----
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- 
> Bastien
> 
> 
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