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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change: (org-agenda-bulk-action) Prompt w/number of marked items
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:32:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va7i776p.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2ic46ke.fsf@alphapapa.net> (Adam Porter's message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2018 04:00:49 -0500")

Hello,

Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:

> * lisp/org-agenda.el (org-agenda-bulk-action): When scattering, prompt
>   for number of days with number of marked items.

Thank you.

> A typical pattern for me is to mark a significant number of items
> scheduled in the past and scatter them into the future.  Usually I
> want to schedule one item per day, i.e. across a number of days equal
> to the number of marked items.  The default prompt is 7 days, and
> counting the number of items is tedious.  This uses the number of
> marked items as the initial prompt for the number of days.
>
> Alternatively, the number of marked items could be indicated in the
> prompt string, e.g. "Scatter X tasks across how many days:".  A
> customizeable default could also be provided.

FWIW, I slightly prefer the second option. Would you want to provide
a patch for that?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-06 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-02  9:00 [PATCH] Change: (org-agenda-bulk-action) Prompt w/number of marked items Adam Porter
2018-09-06 19:32 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2018-09-13  9:55   ` Adam Porter
2018-09-13 10:36     ` Adam Porter
2018-09-13 21:12       ` Nicolas Goaziou

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