Re: done-ing a repeating scheduled task now inserts closed timestamp?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Manuel Hermenegildo wrote:

>
> Hi Carten,
>
> OK, OK, I will try again to bend my mind around the current
> behavior. ;-)
>
>> Why, if you want to have many tasks instead of one, don't
>> you just create many directly, with different dates.  A keyboard
>> macro would work for this, or a little function that does the
>> copying and time shifting.
>>
>> I may make a function that copies a task N times
>> with a certain date shift.
>
> You have a point. Such a function would indeed be great for, e.g.,
> scheduling classes, where one can, after having created N tasks,
> annotate each with what will be taught, eliminate those that fall on
> holidays, etc.
>
> Perhaps the function should take a parameter N (C-u N ...) and, when
> called with the cursor over a repeating task, unfold it N times on
> demand into N non-repeating tasks and a new repeating task starting at
> the date after the last copy.

This command is now available, org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift,  
bound to
`C-c C-x c'.

Please read the docstring of the command for details.

- Carsten