Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-08-03 Thread Samuel Wales
Hi Andrew, On 2009-07-09, Andrew M. Nuxoll wrote: > 3. Once I set a deadline for a task, it'd be nice if the priority would > increase as the deadline approached. Ideally the criteria for > increasing the priority could be specified via a customizable formula. > Does this functionality (or any

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-08-02 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:16 AM, Nick Dokos wrote: Andrew M. Nuxoll wrote: 3. Once I set a deadline for a task, it'd be nice if the priority would increase as the deadline approached. Ideally the criteria for increasing the priority could be specified via a customizable formula. Does th

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-10 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:48:20 +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > [...] > Then again, as someone said, a DEADLINE with an appropriate warning > delay would be fine in that case too. I have tasks that have deadlines months in the future and which need tackling from now until the deadline, although obvio

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-10 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:32:59 -0400, Nick Dokos wrote: > Quite likely it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I still > don't see why you would both schedule and deadline an item. Could > you provide a scenario where that would be useful? Well, to use an example that I think the OP (Andrew) w

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-10 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Nick Dokos writes: > Quite likely it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I still > don't see why you would both schedule and deadline an item. Could > you provide a scenario where that would be useful? I think the OP has a time frame to execute some task. He doesn't want to be bugged abou

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-10 Thread Nick Dokos
Eric S Fraga wrote: > At Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:08:31 -0700, > Andrew M. Nuxoll wrote: > > In my mind, there is no conflict between scheduling and deadlining. > > I agree with you on this point but, in this case, it makes sense for > both aspects to be highlighted in the agenda view. I would sugge

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-10 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:08:31 -0700, Andrew M. Nuxoll wrote: > In my mind, there is no conflict between scheduling and deadlining. I agree with you on this point but, in this case, it makes sense for both aspects to be highlighted in the agenda view. I would suggest that you might wish to change (

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-10 Thread Ian Barton
Andrew M. Nuxoll wrote: Nick Dokos wrote: Just an FYI (a nice one since Carsten said so :-): Carsten is the first name, Dominik (no c) is the surname of the creator of Org-mode. And I promise we'll be nice even after he comes back :-) Err, whoops! So let me turn the question around: why do

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-09 Thread Andrew M. Nuxoll
Nick Dokos wrote: Just an FYI (a nice one since Carsten said so :-): Carsten is the first name, Dominik (no c) is the surname of the creator of Org-mode. And I promise we'll be nice even after he comes back :-) Err, whoops! So let me turn the question around: why do you need to both SCHEDULE

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-09 Thread Nick Dokos
Andrew M. Nuxoll wrote: > Also, Dominick said you had to be nice to me while he was away. > Just an FYI (a nice one since Carsten said so :-): Carsten is the first name, Dominik (no c) is the surname of the creator of Org-mode. And I promise we'll be nice even after he comes back :-) > 1. Whe

Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-09 Thread Brian van den Broek
Andrew M. Nuxoll said unto the world at 09/07/09 04:37 PM: 2. Once a TODO item has been marked as DONE, it still shows up on my agenda. Can this be avoided? I have the following lines in my .emacs: (setq org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t) (setq org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done t) Best,

[Orgmode] Newbie Questions

2009-07-09 Thread Andrew M. Nuxoll
Ok, newb here. I have only been using org-mode for a few days now. But I've been an emacs guy since 1992, I have read the manual and I've also searched the archive of this mailing list. So, forgive me if these questions are repeats. Also, Dominick said you had to be nice to me while he was

Re: [Orgmode] newbie questions

2009-04-08 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Stathis Sideris wrote: Hello all, I'm new to org mode (the bundling of ditaa made me aware of its existence!), and having recently converted a relatively large volume of notes from freemind, I'm now giving org mode a serious test drive. Hi Stathis, welcome! I

Re: [Orgmode] newbie questions

2009-04-06 Thread Manish
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Stathis Sideris wrote: [...] > > (2) Is there any way to make org-cycle skip the "show all" mode? That > would make it to just collapse/expand the children of the current > heading. If I understood you right then TAB should do that for you (instead of Sh

[Orgmode] newbie questions

2009-04-06 Thread Stathis Sideris
Hello all, I'm new to org mode (the bundling of ditaa made me aware of its existence!), and having recently converted a relatively large volume of notes from freemind, I'm now giving org mode a serious test drive. I have three questions: (1) Is there any way to make the column placement of org-e