Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Westlake
On Tue, 5 May 2009 15:22:04 +0200, "Carsten Dominik" said: ... > I think that any kind of priority inheritance would be defeating the > purpose of priorities, by inflation. > > I think what you are trying to do is to assign a whole project subtree > high importance, and I would suggest to use tag

Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

2009-05-05 Thread Carsten Dominik
On May 5, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Peter Westlake wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2009 18:14:38 +0200, "Carsten Dominik" said: Hi Peter, Matt, priorities cannot be inherited. Fair enough! In that case, would it be possible to take the default priority for a new task from the parent task? I think that an

Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

2009-05-05 Thread Peter Westlake
On Sun, 3 May 2009 18:14:38 +0200, "Carsten Dominik" said: > Hi Peter, Matt, > > priorities cannot be inherited. Fair enough! In that case, would it be possible to take the default priority for a new task from the parent task? Peter. > - Carsten > > On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake

Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

2009-05-03 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Peter, Matt, priorities cannot be inherited. - Carsten On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake wrote: I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of it must be too. There are 250 items in my agen

Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

2009-04-29 Thread Matthew Lundin
"Peter Westlake" writes: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:34:37 -0500, "Matthew Lundin" > said: >> "Peter Westlake" writes: >> >> > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After >> > all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of >> > it must be too. > > ... >

Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

2009-04-29 Thread Peter Westlake
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:34:37 -0500, "Matthew Lundin" said: > "Peter Westlake" writes: > > > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After > > all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of > > it must be too. ... > Have you checked out the variable org

Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

2009-04-29 Thread Matthew Lundin
"Peter Westlake" writes: > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After all, > if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of it must > be too. > > There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's > with dependencies on, ordered subtasks,

[Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

2009-04-29 Thread Peter Westlake
I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of it must be too. There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less important stu