Re: [O] bulk rescheduling change?

[Greg Troxel]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 
>> I'm running from git, updating every few weeks, currently on
>> 
>>   commit c276eeebeecba23913547f62cf4b8122f0e8efa9
>>   Author: Jambunathan K <address@hidden>
>>   Date:   Wed Sep 5 03:33:16 2012 +0530
>> 
>> (that commit is surely not relevant to my question...).
>> 
>> I often hope to get more done than I do, so I'm often faced with pushing
>> scheduled items forward.  I typically do this from the agenda view, with
>> 'C-c C-s' for individual items, and markings and 'B s' for groups of
>> items (typically, saturday-type items to a week later).  I find that
>> with individual rescheduling, I get a prompt that has no prefilled text,
>> and can easily type '+1<cr>', or 'sat<cr>'.  'B s' used to behave this
>> way, but now the prompt is prefilled with '<2012-09-12 Wed>', and I have
>> to delete that.  This seems like a misfeature, because at least for me
>> bulk-reschedulign to today is not the dominant case, and if it were . is
>> easy to type anwyay.  The info file doesn't explain this.
>
> It *should* be the case that you shouldn't have to delete the default:
> just select a date from the calendar or type +2 or type a date and it
> should take that. But in my (rather hastily done) experiment, it
> seemed to ignore any such and in fact, when I tried to reschedule
> again the bunch of things that it rescheduled for today, it would not
> even stop and let me enter anything.

I should have pointed out that I'm running emacs 23.4 inside an xterm.

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