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From: "Denis Bueno" <dbueno@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: todo-prefix default value has odd diary interpretation
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:41:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dbd4d000704201141u6b3c3501n61312e08ea70107@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9k3b2uew1x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On 4/20/07, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
> "Denis Bueno" wrote:
>
> > So, first: is there a way to set a deadline for a todo, such that
> > emacs will display an appointment at the time of the deadline for the
> > todo?
>
> It seems not, because todo's don't have a concept of a time at which
> they need to be done. Why not just make a normal diary entry?

I may do that. It seems weird to have to look in two places for todos
(if I put deadline-having todos in diary but not in todo-mode), but I
suppose I could put the deadline in diary, and the todo in .todo-do.
This duplicates a bit of work, but may be psychologically acceptable.

>
> > Second: should this behavior be changed so that the time of entering
> > the todo should not be considered an appointment time?
>
> Try customizing todo-time-string-format so that the time of day is not
> recognized by appt.

Ah. Hadn't thought of that. Will report on any solution.

-Denis

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-20 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-20 14:04 todo-prefix default value has odd diary interpretation Denis Bueno
2007-04-20 18:32 ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-20 18:41   ` Denis Bueno [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2330.1177094818.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-21  4:00     ` Tim X

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