Removing DEADLINE and SCHEDULED from a headline

Removing DEADLINE and SCHEDULED from a headline

[Bernt Hansen]

Hi Carsten,

I ran into this a few weeks ago and it's been bugging me.

I reorganized a project which had a deadline on the main task and moved
it down to multiple subtasks in the project.

,----
| * TODO Project task
|   DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
| ** TODO Step 1
| ** TODO Step 2
| ...
| ** TODO Step n
`----

I decided the DEADLINE really doesn't belong at the top -- since the
deadline was for step 2 (and a few other tasks)... so I moved it the
hard way.  Instead of cutting it out and pasting it back in the right
tree I just used C-c C-d and entered the same date on step 2 (because I
was moving the date a bit from the original date).

,----
| * TODO Project task
|   DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
| ** TODO Step 1
| ** TODO Step 2
|    DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
| ...
| ** TODO Step n
`----

Now to remove the deadline from the Project task I just did C-u C-c C-d
on the Project task but this removed all the deadlines in the subtree
and my deadline in Step 2 (and others) is now gone.

AFAICT SCHEDULED: works the same way.  This doesn't feel natural to me
but I know it is documented this way.

Does the way it works now really make sense or would just removing the
deadline from the task you are working on be better.

C-c C-d sets a deadline just for this task, so it felt natural to me
that C-u C-c C-d would remove the deadline just for this task -- but
that's what I get for not reading the manual (or forgetting since I read
it ;)

Regards,
Bernt

Re: Removing DEADLINE and SCHEDULED from a headline

[Carsten Dominik]

Fixed, thanks.

- Carsten

On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> I ran into this a few weeks ago and it's been bugging me.
>
> I reorganized a project which had a deadline on the main task and  
> moved
> it down to multiple subtasks in the project.
>
> ,----
> | * TODO Project task
> |   DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
> | ** TODO Step 1
> | ** TODO Step 2
> | ...
> | ** TODO Step n
> `----
>
> I decided the DEADLINE really doesn't belong at the top -- since the
> deadline was for step 2 (and a few other tasks)... so I moved it the
> hard way.  Instead of cutting it out and pasting it back in the right
> tree I just used C-c C-d and entered the same date on step 2  
> (because I
> was moving the date a bit from the original date).
>
> ,----
> | * TODO Project task
> |   DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
> | ** TODO Step 1
> | ** TODO Step 2
> |    DEADLINE: <2009-08-28 Fri>
> | ...
> | ** TODO Step n
> `----
>
> Now to remove the deadline from the Project task I just did C-u C-c  
> C-d
> on the Project task but this removed all the deadlines in the subtree
> and my deadline in Step 2 (and others) is now gone.
>
> AFAICT SCHEDULED: works the same way.  This doesn't feel natural to me
> but I know it is documented this way.
>
> Does the way it works now really make sense or would just removing the
> deadline from the task you are working on be better.
>
> C-c C-d sets a deadline just for this task, so it felt natural to me
> that C-u C-c C-d would remove the deadline just for this task -- but
> that's what I get for not reading the manual (or forgetting since I  
> read
> it ;)
>
> Regards,
> Bernt