From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Feature request: inherited priorities Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:22:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1241016041.16824.1312919817@webmail.messagingengine.com> <0C2BA62A-8B8F-484C-BD53-2FFE57EC3AAB@gmail.com> <1241529169.9772.1313827043@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1KbB-0003C2-IX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:22:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1Kb6-000352-K2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:22:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51313 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1Kb6-00034l-Du for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:22:12 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f162.google.com ([209.85.219.162]:36507) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M1Kb4-0001C9-GZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:22:11 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so5096937ewy.42 for ; Tue, 05 May 2009 06:22:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1241529169.9772.1313827043@webmail.messagingengine.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: Peter Westlake Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On May 5, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Peter Westlake wrote: > > On Sun, 3 May 2009 18:14:38 +0200, "Carsten Dominik" > said: >> Hi Peter, Matt, >> >> priorities cannot be inherited. > > Fair enough! > > In that case, would it be possible to take the default priority for a > new task from the parent task? I think that any kind of priority inheritance would be defeating the purpose of priorities, by inflation. I think what you are trying to do is to assign a whole project subtree high importance, and I would suggest to use tags for this purpose, which also support inheritance, and which allow very flexible filtering. HTH - Carsten > > Peter. > >> - Carsten >> >> On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake wrote: >> >>> I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After >>> all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of >>> it must be too. >>> >>> There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's >>> with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less >>> important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen >>> or so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask >>> to an important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down >>> the list and be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything >>> by hand. >>> >>> Hope this is a reasonable idea, >>> >>> Peter. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies >>> to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >>