On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:28:48PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Adam Spiers wrote: > >The motivation is that while I very much like org's functionality for > >automatically updating the timestamp on a repeated task once it has > >been marked as done, I do not want tasks such as "water plants" > >cluttering up my calendar forever into the future. I only care about > >the next plant watering, not all others thereafter, and with screen > >real estate always short in supply (especially on mobile devices!), > >any possible savings are of value. > > I can see that this is useful, but I still insist that Org should > export a repeated event as such.
As the *default* behaviour, without another behaviour being very specifically requested by the user, I entirely agree :-) > I am adding a hook, `org-before-save-iCalendar-file-hook'. You can > add some special cookie in the headline of the entry, and then > search for this cookie in the exported file and remove the > repetition rule. How about that? Yes thanks; that should do it, and will also possibly enable other use cases via that hook. > >Actually, now I think about it more, the above decluttering argument > >applies equally to the Org agenda itself. So if it would be a more > >consistent request from the point of view of maintaining an intuitive > >UI or from ease of implementation, I would be perfectly happy if the > >proposed property disabled display of all but the first instance of > >the repeated task *everywhere*, i.e. not only in iCal exports, but > >also in agenda displays. > > Org has the variable `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all' which > allows to modify this behavior for all repeating time stamps, not > for individual ones, though. Well, perhaps you might consider it at some point in the future, or at least a distinction between repeated events and repeated tasks. I think we've now spent enough energy on this relatively minor cosmetic issue though ;-) _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
