From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cannot reschedule task with repeater
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:57:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a0a2r50.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08CB54C5-C25E-4128-9F36-4319CA9D1BFD@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:18:33 +0100")
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Tom wrote:
>
>> It's not clear to me in case of a timestamp like this
>>
>> <2010-03-08 H 21:30 .+1d>
>>
>> why can't the reschedule feature change the date/time part only
>> and leave the repeater part intact? Why does it have to throw the
>> error "Cannot reschedule task with repeater"?
>>
>> I see no compelling reason for not allowing rescheduling in this case.
>> Maybe an option could be added which the user could set if he wants
>> to allow rescheduling even in case of schedules with repeater.
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> there is no compelling reason except a technical reason. It was
> kind of hard to make this work because of the way scheduling
> and deadlining is implemented. When I added the error message,
> it was because that seemed better than removing the repeater silently.
>
> I have now removed this limitation, because, as you say, it
> really should not be there.D
This is wonderful news! I've been wishing for this functionality for a
long time. Thanks to Tom for asking and thanks to Carsten, as always,
for implementing it.
Best,
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-09 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-08 7:57 Cannot reschedule task with repeater Tom
2010-03-08 17:18 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-08 17:24 ` Tom
2010-03-08 21:48 ` Ryan Thompson
2010-03-09 1:57 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-03-10 2:30 ` Bernt Hansen
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