From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Proposal: delete on DONE Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:29:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4CC45E83.17983.6AB24EE@george.canals.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45808 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PA7CT-0000FN-DR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:29:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PA7CS-0008KK-19 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:29:53 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:50237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PA7CR-0008K6-Rf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:29:51 -0400 Received: by ewy25 with SMTP id 25so1332181ewy.0 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:29:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CC45E83.17983.6AB24EE@george.canals.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: George Pearson Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:27 PM, George Pearson wrote: > I would like to suggest a feature in which, when a task is marked > done, > the task is deleted, i.e. no trace of it remains. > > I have a number of tasks to do (e.g. "reply to Jeff's email") that I > have NO need to have a record of performing. Currently, these DONE > tasks just pile up in my org files and I need to go manually through > and delete them, a time consuming process. > > Would be nice to mark these tasks "delete on done" when created, and > this "flag" could be checked in the "done" processing. Perhaps the > logging property could be used, or is there a better way? > > Unfortunately, I have no lisp programming experience to speak of... You can just press C-k in the agenda to kill a task instead of marking it done. This seems to be more direct than wasting the time to mark them first.... - Carsten > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode