Repeater Options

Repeater Options

[Nick Parker]

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Is there a way to specify a todo item that is scheduled to repeat on the 3rd
Thursday of the month?  I tried to use +1m, however that does not work the
same way.  Any suggestions?

Nick Parker
www.developernotes.com

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Re: Repeater Options

[Jan Böcker]

On 17.01.2010 21:31, Nick Parker wrote:
> Is there a way to specify a todo item that is scheduled to repeat on the
> 3rd Thursday of the month?  I tried to use +1m, however that does not
> work the same way.  Any suggestions?

For more complex repeaters like that, you need to use a diary sexp like
this:

<%%(diary-float t 4 3>

The 4 specifies the 4th day of the week
(0 = Sunday through 6 = Saturday).

The 3 specifies the first Thursday.

This is adapted from an example in the Org documentation; refer to
"Diary-style sexp entries" under "8.1 Timestamps, deadlines and scheduling".


I have an entry in my Org files which has two of these, to show up on
both the second and the fourth Tuesday of every month.

HTH, Jan

Re: Repeater Options

[Jan Böcker]

On 17.01.2010 22:39, Jan Böcker wrote:

> <%%(diary-float t 4 3>
                      ^ oops, missed a paren there.

This should be <%%(diary-float t 4 3)>

Re: Repeater Options

[Nick Parker]

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Jan,

That is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

Nick Parker
www.developernotes.com


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de> wrote:

> On 17.01.2010 21:31, Nick Parker wrote:
> > Is there a way to specify a todo item that is scheduled to repeat on the
> > 3rd Thursday of the month?  I tried to use +1m, however that does not
> > work the same way.  Any suggestions?
>
> For more complex repeaters like that, you need to use a diary sexp like
> this:
>
> <%%(diary-float t 4 3>
>
> The 4 specifies the 4th day of the week
> (0 = Sunday through 6 = Saturday).
>
> The 3 specifies the first Thursday.
>
> This is adapted from an example in the Org documentation; refer to
> "Diary-style sexp entries" under "8.1 Timestamps, deadlines and
> scheduling".
>
>
> I have an entry in my Org files which has two of these, to show up on
> both the second and the fourth Tuesday of every month.
>
> HTH, Jan
>

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Re: Repeater Options

[Ben Finney]

Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de> writes:

> On 17.01.2010 21:31, Nick Parker wrote:
> > Is there a way to specify a todo item that is scheduled to repeat on
> > the 3rd Thursday of the month? I tried to use +1m, however that does
> > not work the same way. Any suggestions?
>
> For more complex repeaters like that, you need to use a diary sexp
> like this:
>
> <%%(diary-float t 4 3>

How does one make these into a date+time specification, so they will
show up at the correct place in the agenda?

> This is adapted from an example in the Org documentation; refer to
> "Diary-style sexp entries" under "8.1 Timestamps, deadlines and
> scheduling".

Can someone who knows how this is supposed to be done please add it to
the “Repeating” part of the documentation? That's where many people
evidently expect to find how to do this.

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