Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> writes: > What I'm trying to do is more complex than that. > * Reorder pills > ** TODO order hctz, lisinipril, metformin, provacol, claritin, Co-q10, > Deadline: <8-2-2021 +4w> > ** TODO order Colase > Deadline: <10-13-2021 +14w> > ** TODO order Turmerick > Deadline: <8-30-2021 +8w> > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Nick Dokos wrote: > >> Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> writes: >> >> > Does enough material exist on werg tutorials that document how to get a >> > repeater operational? That or maybe I don't understand repeaters. Had >> > the repeater I tried to use worked correctly it would have advanced the >> > original date by 4 weeks when that date got copied down to another cell. >> > I selected the whole line including both verticals and perhaps this works >> > when only a time stamp is copied. >> > >> >> I am likely doing this wrong but will describe what has been done. >> >> I put an agenda time stamp into a field in test.org and add +4w to the end >> >> of the time stamp inside the >. >> >> I get on the left of the field column on the vertical character and type >> >> control-space to set mark. >> >> I move to the end of the field on the > sign and type space and another >> >> vertical to close the column entry for that field. >> >> Next I do control-c+x+v and am told strings are copied to the kill ring. >> >> Next I move down one line and type control-y to yank those strings out of >> >> the kill buffer and paste them on that line. >> >> When this is done, I expected the time stamp to increment by 4 weeks. >> >> What happened was the same information got copied down and it didn't >> >> increment. >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >>
I still don't understand: in your most recent response (at the top of this thread) you are talking about headlines with DEADLINE added (which seems the right approach to me: is there a problem with it?) But in your original mail, as well as in the followup, you are taling about "field columns" and "vertical characters" and "cop[ying] down to another cell", which seems to imply that you have an Org mode table somewhere. Maybe you can elaborate a bit? -- Nick "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler