Re: Inserting todo time range

[Spenser Truex <usenet@spensertruex.com>]

Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Raimund Kohl-Füchsle <rk-f@posteo.de> writes:
> [...]
>> If instead I would use
>>
>>    ** TODO Test Time range
>>
>>         <2004-08-23 Mon>--<2004-08-26 Thu>
>>
>> then this for org-mode would just be one todo; if I mark it done on
>> Mon all other days are marked as done, too.
>>
>> So how would I schedule a daily TODO only, say, this week from Mo -
>> Fr?
> well, I think there are only wuerg-arounds to gain the desired
> behaviour. First, you can use a sexp to specify the days on which your
> task will be inserted into your agenda:
>
> SCHEDULED: <%%(memq (calendar-day-of-week date) '(1 2 3 4 5))>
>
> But with that your task is done when you set it to done. Something
> like the following isn't perfect, but seems to work:
>
>
> ** TODO foobar
>    DEADLINE: <2020-01-04 Sat +1d>
>    SCHEDULED: <%%(memq (calendar-day-of-week date) '(1 2 3 4 5))>
>    [2019-03-31 Sun] 

I have also been wanting to be able to do this in my agenda, so I can
have my daily M-F schedule in my org-agenda buffer.

What would it take to write ORG to behave properly on a TODO range like that?
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