Bastien:
Thanks for your patience and continued assistance.
Here an example scenario that illustrates my problem: Say, at the end
of each week I need to sit down and generate a report on my progress to
send to the boss. So I have recurring, weekly TODO entry on Friday
morning. Well, one week the report is delayed because a coworker was
ill and couldn't send me the data I needed on time. So, I have to delay
that TODO entry until Monday *just this one time.* I need to get it off
my agenda for the day but I don't want to mark is as completed because
it's not.
Right now the only way to do that is to mark it as completed anyway but
make a one-time copy of the TODO item with the new scheduled date. The
problem is that I have roughly thirty TODO items per day and, on any
given day, I need to delay about 10-20% of them for various reasons.
(It's the nature of my job though I don't think it's that unusual.) So
making a copy of a TODO item each time is inconvenient because I end up
with dozens of copies floating about.
Furthermore, a delayed TODO item should have more urgency since it's
been delayed. But creating a copy means i can't do that. When Monday
rolls around and it's time to prepare that report it shows up in green
text like this in my agenda:
Scheduled: TODO [#B] Prepare TPS Report
but I want it to be in red text like this:
Sched. 4x: TODO [#B] Prepare TPS Report
This is why I'm looking for a distinct "snooze" or "delay"
functionality. I want a TODO item to disappear from the agenda until a
specified date and then reappear again waiting to be done with all the
urgency associated with that delay.
Any help would be appreciated.
:AMN:
On 01/24/2013 02:26 PM, Bastien wrote:
Hi Andrew,
"Andrew M. Nuxoll" <nux...@up.edu> writes:
My first problem is that C-h is mapped to backspace on my computer.
I presume (C-h v) means view help on a particular item.
C-h v is normally bound to `describe-variable'.
So you can run this:
M-x describe-variable RET org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp RET
My second problem is that org-agenda-ignore is not a valid prefix for
anything in my version of org-mode.
In recent Emacsen, the completion mechanism is clever enough to know
what to do when entering
M-x describe-variable RET org-agenda-ignore TAB
On the first TAB, it offers "org-agenda-t-ignore-"
If you complete "org-agenda-todo-ignore-" and press TAB again,
you should see five variables.
(I have version 7.9.3d
installed.). I *think* you intended to point me to variables that
begin with org-agenda-todo-ignore instead. Can you confirm this is
so?
I do :)
My third problem is that I can not figure out how to use these
variables to accomplish my purpose. I think part of the problem is
that I am using custom agenda commands. The relevant code snippet
for the command I use most is here:
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'(
("o" "Today's Tasks"
((agenda "" ((org-agenda-ndays 1))) ;; limits the agenda
display to a single day
(todo "TODO"))
((org-agenda-compact-blocks t)
))
etc...
Try this:
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'(("X" "Todo test" todo "TODO"
((org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 2)))))
When listing todos, the ones that are 2 days or more in the future
will be ignored.
You can also use this for tags-todo if
`org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options' is set to t.
We don't have `org-agenda-agenda-honor-ignore-options' so
this is not relevant in agenda-type views. Maybe we can
consider this.
In your case, this does not solve your problem, since you
want an item-based decision, not an agenda-based one.
But... my first question would be...
***** TODO [#B] Verify login to the virtual machines
SCHEDULED: <2013-01-11 Tue +1w> DELAY: <2013-01-24 Thu>
why not simply have this instead:
***** TODO [#B] Verify login to the virtual machines
SCHEDULED: <2013-01-25 Fri +1w>
?
Maybe I miss something obvious in your workflow, and maybe
this is something needed more widely. Let us know!
Would you please give me some more information?
Hope that helps,
--
Andrew M. Nuxoll Phone: 503-943-7688
Asst Professor of Computer Science Fax: 503-943-7316
University of Portland - MSC #145 Email: nux...@up.edu
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