What I'm trying to do is more complex than that. * Reorder pills ** TODO order hctz, lisinipril, metformin, provacol, claritin, Co-q10, Deadline: <8-2-2021 +4w> ** TODO order Colase Deadline: <10-13-2021 +14w> ** TODO order Turmerick Deadline: <8-30-2021 +8w>
On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Nick Dokos wrote: > Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> writes: > > > Does enough material exist on werg tutorials that document how to get a > > repeater operational? That or maybe I don't understand repeaters. Had > > the repeater I tried to use worked correctly it would have advanced the > > original date by 4 weeks when that date got copied down to another cell. > > I selected the whole line including both verticals and perhaps this works > > when only a time stamp is copied. > > > > I may be misunderstanding, but are you trying to fill a column in a table > with dates that are four weeks apart? If so, repeaters have nothing to do > with it (AFAIK). You need `org-table-copy-increment' to be set to 28. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > | date | foo | > |------------------+-----| > | <2021-07-22 Thu> | | > | <2021-08-19 Thu> | | > | <2021-09-16 Thu> | | > | <2021-10-14 Thu> | | > | <2021-11-11 Thu> | | > | <2021-12-09 Thu> | | > > > * Code > > #+begin_src elisp > (setq-local org-table-copy-increment 28) > > #+end_src > > #+RESULTS: > : 28 > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Then keep pressing `S-RET' to get the next date. > > > > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > >> I am likely doing this wrong but will describe what has been done. > >> I put an agenda time stamp into a field in test.org and add +4w to the end > >> of the time stamp inside the >. > >> I get on the left of the field column on the vertical character and type > >> control-space to set mark. > >> I move to the end of the field on the > sign and type space and another > >> vertical to close the column entry for that field. > >> Next I do control-c+x+v and am told strings are copied to the kill ring. > >> Next I move down one line and type control-y to yank those strings out of > >> the kill buffer and paste them on that line. > >> When this is done, I expected the time stamp to increment by 4 weeks. > >> What happened was the same information got copied down and it didn't > >> increment. > >> What am I doing wrong? > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >