Re: a repeater doesn't increment

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> writes:

> What I'm trying to do is more complex than that.
> * Reorder pills
> ** TODO order hctz, lisinipril, metformin, provacol, claritin, Co-q10,
>    Deadline: <8-2-2021 +4w>
> ** TODO order Colase
>    Deadline: <10-13-2021 +14w>
> ** TODO order Turmerick
>    Deadline: <8-30-2021 +8w>
>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Nick Dokos wrote:
>
>> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> writes:
>>
>> > Does enough material exist on werg tutorials that document how to get a
>> > repeater operational?  That or maybe I don't understand repeaters.  Had
>> > the repeater I tried to use worked correctly it would have advanced the
>> > original date by 4 weeks when that date got copied down to another cell.
>> > I selected the whole line including both verticals and perhaps this works
>> > when only a time stamp is copied.
>> >
>> >> I am likely doing this wrong but will describe what has been done.
>> >> I put an agenda time stamp into a field in test.org and add +4w to the end
>> >> of the time stamp inside the >.
>> >> I get on the left of the field column on the vertical character and type
>> >> control-space to set mark.
>> >> I move to the end of the field on the > sign and type space and another
>> >> vertical to close the column entry for that field.
>> >> Next I do control-c+x+v and am told strings are copied to the kill ring.
>> >> Next I move down one line and type control-y to yank those strings out of
>> >> the kill buffer and paste them on that line.
>> >> When this is done, I expected the time stamp to increment by 4 weeks.
>> >> What happened was the same information got copied down and it didn't
>> >> increment.
>> >> What am I doing wrong?
>> >>

I still don't understand: in your most recent response (at the top of this thread)
you are talking about headlines with DEADLINE added (which seems the right approach
to me: is there a problem with it?) But in your original mail, as well as in the followup, you are
taling about "field columns" and "vertical characters" and "cop[ying] down to another cell",
which seems to imply that you have an Org mode table somewhere.

Maybe you can elaborate a bit?
-- 
Nick

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