Re: bulk relative time shift (in org file)?

[Michael C Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org>]

On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Memnon Anon wrote:

>  Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
> 
>> On an item, `C-c C-s' and `C-c C-d' now allows you to use
>> "+2d" to say "schedule in 2 days from today" or "++2d" to 
>> say "schedule in 2 days from existing timestamp".
>> 
>> In agenda, `B s' and `B d' will also understand this and
>> let you reschedule/redeadline items relatively.
>> 
>> Let me know if this works okay for you -- and thanks for
>> bringing this up again!
> 
> "++" looks very useful! I pinged Michael who started this thread, I hope we'll get an update
> on his perspective. 

I missed the ++ usage in this context completely. Yes, this gets me close to what I was looking for.

Ideally, something like this should be available in the org file, rather than in the agenda. The reason being is that it is a common project planning task to shift all related tasks back by some set period of time. I can see expanding the notion to take dependencies into account, but that is not critical. I'm just looking for a way to do this routine in the project management & planning contexts in my own work and in my organization....

But if I shift back and forth to the agenda, then I can make this work. I'm assuming that the 'Cc C-s' and 'C-c C-d' commands don't work on regions or on everything under a heading?

— Michael