Re: [FR] Allow end date and max repeat count for timestamps with repeaters (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> but i just wanted to bring up the issue of 1] the possibility of
> drawing a line in the sand at some point wrt creeping syntax [even if
> not in tses for repeaters], [in principle in tses if tz complexity
> turns out to demand more user specification etc.], and 2] 3rd party
> and personal code that ... who knows what parsing lurks.  unintended
> consequences and all that.
>
> i checked my very old own code and indeed i'm not trying to get the
> repeater with strict re character group, but in principle i can
> imagine code by others could have.

Well. I'd say that repeat count has been requested enough to strongly
consider adding it. I guess an alternative could be setting a heading
property to limit the number of repetitions.

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