From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to say "I did that yesterday?"
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:01:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ipmbn1up.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r50zyfeh.wl%egh@e6h.org> (Erik Hetzner's message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:13:26 -0800")
on Tue Nov 22 2011, Erik Hetzner <egh-AT-e6h.org> wrote:
> At Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:40:35 -0800,
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>
>
>>
>> I often discover that I completed something a few days ago and I would
>> like to mark it done with the appropriate date as though I had marked it
>> done in the past. That means, e.g., for a repeating event it might
>> repeat sooner than if it had been done today. Is there a way?
>
> M-x org-todo-yesterday ?
>
> If there is a way to do this for days further in the past, I would
> welcome it! I also find myself wanting to do this often. Right now I
> just mark it done, then manually adjust the log entries.
>
> best, Erik
> Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>.
org-todo-yesterday clearly shows how it could be done. Heh, we could
have org-todo respond to negative prefix args by shifting the date back
that many days and then prompting for state as though `C-u' had been
pressed.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 19:40 How to say "I did that yesterday?" Dave Abrahams
2011-11-22 20:03 ` Peter Münster
2011-11-22 20:16 ` Greg Troxel
2011-11-22 20:27 ` Michael Brand
2011-11-22 22:48 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-22 22:13 ` Erik Hetzner
2011-11-23 0:01 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-11-23 5:02 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-23 7:28 ` Tom Prince
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