From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay McCarthy Subject: Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:38:35 -0600 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S98pG-0005fn-JA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:38:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S98pC-0000Q4-M2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:38:42 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:59413) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S98pC-0000Lx-FS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:38:38 -0400 Received: by ghrr18 with SMTP id r18so5909206ghr.0 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:38:36 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dear org-mode developers, I wish that I could write +1bd on a repeating tasks so that it skips from Friday to Monday. I looked into implementing this myself, but there are a lot of places (29) where the regexp [dwmy] is used and it scares me off because I think I'll break something. It almost seems like you should be able to add a new 'what' to 'org-timestamp-change' and it will Just Work. But the algorithm in there would need to change a bit, because it would try to change by a number of days, but then adjust based on the advic day of the week. For now, I just manually complete the task on Saturdays and Sundays... but it seems wrong to get credit in the TODO -> DONE log when I really didn't do it :) I also wish that I could specify in some way that an event happens every third Thursday of the month or on the first and third Wednesdays (when my recycling cans are picked up). I don't know of a good way to fit that into the current annotation scheme of + and ++. If you have any advice about how I could do it myself safely, I'd be happy to try and contribute. Jay -- Jay McCarthy Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93