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[Orgmode] Re: Cannot reschedule task with repeater


From: Bernt Hansen
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: Cannot reschedule task with repeater
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:27 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)

Matt Lundin <address@hidden> writes:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Tom wrote:
>>
>>> It's not clear to me in case of a timestamp like this
>>>
>>>     <2010-03-08 H 21:30 .+1d>
>>>
>>> why can't the reschedule feature change the date/time part only
>>> and leave the repeater part intact? Why does it have to throw the
>>> error "Cannot reschedule task with repeater"?
>>>
>>> I see no compelling reason for not allowing rescheduling in this case.
>>> Maybe an option could be added which the user could set if he wants
>>> to allow rescheduling even in case of schedules with repeater.
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> there is no compelling reason except a technical reason.  It was
>> kind of hard to make this work because of the way scheduling
>> and deadlining is implemented.  When I added the error message,
>> it was because that seemed better than removing the repeater silently.
>>
>> I have now removed this limitation, because, as you say, it
>> really should not be there.D
>
> This is wonderful news! I've been wishing for this functionality for a
> long time. Thanks to Tom for asking and thanks to Carsten, as always,
> for implementing it.

Cool!  Now I can get rid of this 11 month old task... Thanks Carsten!!

** CANCELLED org-mode Fix scheduling of tasks with repeaters      :CANCELLED:
   CLOSED: [2010-03-09 Tue 17:43]
   :PROPERTIES:
   :Effort:   2:00
   :END:
   - State "CANCELLED"  from "TODO"       [2010-03-09 Tue 17:43] \\
     Done by Carsten
   [2009-04-09 Thu]
   Tasks with a deadline date and repeater don't allow easy creation of a 
SCHEDULED: entry.
   Error is "org-schedule: Cannot reschedule task with repeater, please do that 
by hand"

-Bernt




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