Re: a repeater doesn't increment

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

I couldn't figure a way to make the field columns work for this many
different items.


On Tue, 27 Jul 2021, Nick Dokos wrote:

> 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?
>