Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-05-10 Thread Nicolas Richard
Le Thu, 10 May 2012 08:38:42 +0200, Bastien a écrit : > ** Lecture ><2012-05-08 mar.> > > ** Lecture ><2012-05-15 mar.> > > ** Lecture ><2012-05-22 mar.> Sure that makes sense, but I forgot to say one thing : as the lectures have not yet been given, they do not have a title; thus my

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-05-09 Thread Bastien
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Richard writes: > PMJI, but I often used to construct headlines such as > > * Some course (or any other kind of recurring meeting) > ** <2012-05-08 mar.> > ** <2012-05-15 mar.> > ** <2012-05-22 mar.> > > and then filling the level two headlines as I attend the lectures. This

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-05-09 Thread Nicolas Richard
Le Tue, 08 May 2012 16:10:02 +0200, Bastien a écrit : > Nick Dokos writes: > >> Oh, I agree - the removal is certainly desirable. I meant whether the >> non-removal of not-today's date is intentional :-) > > Thinking about this again, I don't see any reason why we should keep any > timestamp in

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-05-08 Thread Bastien
Hi Nick, Nick Dokos writes: > Oh, I agree - the removal is certainly desirable. I meant whether the > non-removal of not-today's date is intentional :-) Thinking about this again, I don't see any reason why we should keep any timestamp in the headline. I pushed a fix for this. Thanks! -- B

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-20 Thread Samuel Wales
Just so people know that this is a possibility: I find it useful to put inactive timestamps in headlines. This makes it simple to find entries in a sorted chronological list, and gather information about them, without any unfolding or even (in some cases) any ellipses. I think the key thing is t

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-20 Thread Nick Dokos
Bastien wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Nick Dokos writes: > > > so it becomes "<2012-04-17.*?>". Hence it removes the date in the third > > example above, but not in the other two. > > > > The question is whether this is intended or not > > I think this is intended. If timestamps were not removed fro

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-20 Thread SW
Bastien altern.org> writes: > I think this is intended. If timestamps were not removed from today's > date, agenda listing items scheduled/timestamped for today would be less > readable. If the year in the timestamp of +1y repeating items is the current year, it *is* removed from the agenda.

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-20 Thread Bastien
Hi Nick, Nick Dokos writes: > so it becomes "<2012-04-17.*?>". Hence it removes the date in the third > example above, but not in the other two. > > The question is whether this is intended or not I think this is intended. If timestamps were not removed from today's date, agenda listing items

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread Nick Dokos
Brian van den Broek wrote: > On 17 April 2012 15:11, SW wrote: > > SW gmail.com> writes: > > > >> > > 2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system. > >> Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary: > >> > > > >> > > (org-anniversary 2011 01 01) New Year's

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 17 April 2012 15:11, SW wrote: > SW gmail.com> writes: > >> > > 2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system. >> Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary: >> > > >> > > (org-anniversary 2011 01 01) New Year's Day >> > Emailing before first coffee is a

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
SW gmail.com> writes: > > > 2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system. > Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary: > > > > > > (org-anniversary 2011 01 01) New Year's Day > > Emailing before first coffee is a bad idea. I left out some syntax. See > htt

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread Nick Dokos
SW wrote: > Nick Dokos hp.com> writes: > > > Indeed - I can reproduce that. It happens in org-agenda-get-timestamps, > > in the call to org-agenda-format-item: this function takes a regexp > > argument, remove-re, and removes any matches from the string it > > produces. The regexp is constructe

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
Brian van den Broek gmail.com> writes: > > > > On 17 Apr 2012 09:39, "Brian van den Broek" gmail.com> wrote: > > 2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system. Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary: > > > > (org-anniversary 2011 01 01) New Year's Da

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
Nick Dokos hp.com> writes: > Indeed - I can reproduce that. It happens in org-agenda-get-timestamps, > in the call to org-agenda-format-item: this function takes a regexp > argument, remove-re, and removes any matches from the string it > produces. The regexp is constructed from the *current* dat

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread Nick Dokos
SW wrote: > SW gmail.com> writes: > > > This > > > > *** New Year's Day > > <2011-01-01 +1y> > > > > does *not* include the timestamp in the agenda, yes. > > > > However, timestamps are *not* included in the agenda from other entries > > which > > *do* have timestamps in the headline. > >

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
SW gmail.com> writes: > This > > *** New Year's Day > <2011-01-01 +1y> > > does *not* include the timestamp in the agenda, yes. > > However, timestamps are *not* included in the agenda from other entries which > *do* have timestamps in the headline. > > I've tested with repeating timestamps,

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
Brian van den Broek gmail.com> writes: > 1) I believe org works much more happily if you don't include timestamps in headlines. This *** New Year's Day <2011-01-01 +1y> does *not* include the timestamp in the agenda, yes. However, timestamps are *not* included in the agenda from other entries

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 17 Apr 2012 09:39, "Brian van den Broek" wrote: > 2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system. Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary: > > (org-anniversary 2011 01 01) New Year's Day Emailing before first coffee is a bad idea. I left out some synta

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 17 Apr 2012 09:25, "SW" wrote: > > SW gmail.com> writes: > > > *** <2011-01-01 +1y> New Year's Day :holiday: > > > > and the following appearing on the agenda: > > > > File: <2011-01-01 +1y> New Year's Day :holiday: > > > > What I'm asking about is the fact that the full

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
SW gmail.com> writes: > Apologies -- the above was a copy and paste nightmare between Emacs and > Firemacs. What I meant was the following in an org file: > > *** <2011-01-01 +1y> New Year's Day :holiday: > > and the following appearing on the agenda: > > File: <2011-01-01 +1y> New Y

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
SW gmail.com> writes: > > I have entries such as the following: > > *** <2011-01-01 +1y> New Year's Day :holiday: > > which appear on the agenda on the correct day each year, but they appear as: > > File: <2011-01-01 +1y> Public Holiday: Freedom Day :holiday: > > with the d

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-16 Thread Samuel Wales
Copied a South African diary? :)

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-16 Thread Nick Dokos
SW wrote: > I have entries such as the following: > > *** <2011-01-01 +1y> New Year's Day :holiday: > > which appear on the agenda on the correct day each year, but they appear as: > > File: <2011-01-01 +1y> Public Holiday: Freedom Day :holiday: > > with the date showing. Ot

[O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-16 Thread SW
I have entries such as the following: *** <2011-01-01 +1y> New Year's Day:holiday: which appear on the agenda on the correct day each year, but they appear as: File: <2011-01-01 +1y> Public Holiday: Freedom Day :holiday: with the date showing. Other deadline/schedule/plain