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Subject: Re: Cannot reschedule task with repeater
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:57:47 -0500
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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

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