From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Stegemann Subject: Re: Release 6.28 Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:32:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <697A2093-E226-4AD6-B7DE-21A2DA8208A6@gmail.com> <7AC3F553-5E38-42A3-8761-EE44AE69D51B@gmail.com> <1DE1D0DE-DABA-4492-8571-6EA8B3A887F7@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMhwY-0001IT-SL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:32:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMhwT-0001G8-JJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:32:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44149 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMhwS-0001Fa-T4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:32:37 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34821 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMhwS-00039N-9P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:32:36 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MMhwJ-0003lW-5g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:32:27 +0000 Received: from london.zeitform.net ([146.140.213.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:32:27 +0000 Received: from ulf-news by london.zeitform.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:32:27 +0000 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Carsten Dominik wrote: > On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Christian Egli wrote: > >> >> Hi all >> >> Carsten Dominik writes: >> >>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote: >>>> Carsten Dominik 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). > > This should work now, I added "s" and "d" as bulk commands. > Both commands will prompt for a date, and that date will be set for all > entries. > > If you specify something like "++2d" at the prompt, all > dates will be shifted by the same amount. Works like a charm and proves to be a useful time-saver from the very fist moment on. Thanks for implementing it :) Ulf