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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Lazy project definitions
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 18:54:32 +0200
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On May 17, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In the stuck project definition, adding "^\\*\\{3,\\}" as the 4th
>> element should exclude anything that has level 3 or up in the  
>> subtree.
>
> I don't think this will work.  The regexp matches all tasks with  
> level 3
> or higher subtrees ... which is all projects so all projects are
> considered unstuck.
>
> I need to be able to somehow say a project is not stuck if it doesn't
> have a level 3 task (ie. no children) because it's not a project in  
> this
> case.

You are right.  Ahh, I wish we had the power of Perl
regular expressions in Emacs.  It would be sooo easy then.
No, I don't see a good way here.

Maybe the best is to completely write your own skipper here.  This
is actually not too hard, see the Appendix A7 for an example.

HTH

- Carsten