From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: Repeater Options Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:25:13 +1100 Message-ID: <87k4vgiaau.fsf@benfinney.id.au> References: <4B538380.6080209@jboecker.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWeVE-0000RG-8D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:52 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWeV8-0000LA-MX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:51 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45682 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWeV8-0000L5-Je for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:46 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43404) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWeV8-00083Z-3H for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:46 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NWeV3-0003Pv-V8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:25:41 +0100 Received: from eth595.vic.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.214.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:25:41 +0100 Received: from ben+emacs by eth595.vic.adsl.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:25:41 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Jan Böcker writes: > On 17.01.2010 21:31, Nick Parker wrote: > > Is there a way to specify a todo item that is scheduled to repeat on > > the 3rd Thursday of the month? I tried to use +1m, however that does > > not work the same way. Any suggestions? > > For more complex repeaters like that, you need to use a diary sexp > like this: > > <%%(diary-float t 4 3> How does one make these into a date+time specification, so they will show up at the correct place in the agenda? > This is adapted from an example in the Org documentation; refer to > "Diary-style sexp entries" under "8.1 Timestamps, deadlines and > scheduling". Can someone who knows how this is supposed to be done please add it to the “Repeating” part of the documentation? That's where many people evidently expect to find how to do this. -- \ “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more | `\ robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument | _o__) than others.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney