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,

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