Re: [Orgmode] Re: Release 6.28

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Christian Egli wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
> > > Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Bulk action
> > > > ============
> > > >
> > > > We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
> > >
> > > IMHO setting scheduled (and maybe deadline) date would make sense.
> >
> > In what sense?  Shifting all dates by the same amount, or setting  
> > them
> > all to a fixed date?
>
> I usually display unscheduled TODO items in my agenda as well
> (org-agenda-include-all-todo), so if I decide that I should work on  
> some
> of them next week then a bulk action to schedule them might come in
> handy.
>
> So one use case is to set a fixed scheduled date for a number of  
> TODOs.
> In my case these are tasks that have not been scheduled yet.
>
> Another use case is when I decide that there will not be enough time
> this week to complete all scheduled tasks. I want to move some of the
> tasks to next week. This could be either a shift by 7 days or a
> rescheduling to next monday (a fixed date).

This should work now, I added "s" and "d" as bulk commands.
Both commands will prompt for a date, and that date will be set for  
all entries.

If you specify something like "++2d" at the prompt, all
dates will be shifted by the same amount.

- Carsten