Re: Release 6.28

[Ulf Stegemann <ulf-news@zeitform.de>]

Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch> wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Bulk action
>>>> ============
>>>>
>>>> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
>>>
>>> IMHO setting scheduled (and maybe deadline) date would make sense.
>>
>> In what sense?  Shifting all dates by the same amount, or setting them
>> all to a fixed date?
>
> I usually display unscheduled TODO items in my agenda as well
> (org-agenda-include-all-todo), so if I decide that I should work on some
> of them next week then a bulk action to schedule them might come in
> handy.
>
> So one use case is to set a fixed scheduled date for a number of TODOs.
> In my case these are tasks that have not been scheduled yet.
>
> Another use case is when I decide that there will not be enough time
> this week to complete all scheduled tasks. I want to move some of the
> tasks to next week. This could be either a shift by 7 days or a
> rescheduling to next monday (a fixed date).

Yes, both shifting by the same amount and setting a fixed date can be
useful. I usually re-schedule leftover todos by shifting them by one
or two working days to the future. So originally I had a bulk version of
`org-agenda-do-date-later' and friends in mind as opposed to
`org-agenda-schedule'. But the latter one would be useful to. Ideally,
S-left, C-cC-s et al. would trigger a bulk shift/bulk schedule whenever
there are marked agenda items.

Ulf