Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

[Carsten Dominik]

On May 5, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:

> On Sun, 3 May 2009 18:14:38 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
> <address@hidden> said:
> > Hi Peter, Matt,
> >
> > priorities cannot be inherited.
>
> Fair enough!
>
> In that case, would it be possible to take the default priority for a
> new task from the parent task?

I think that any kind of priority inheritance would be defeating
the purpose of priorities, by inflation.

I think what you are trying to do is to assign a whole project
subtree high importance, and I would suggest to use tags for
this purpose, which also support inheritance, and which allow
very flexible filtering.

HTH

- Carsten

> Peter.
>
> > - Carsten
> >
> > On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to suggest that priorities should be inherited. After
> > > all, if a task is high priority, then doing the individual parts of
> > > it must be too.
> > >
> > > There are 250 items in my agenda TODO list at the moment, and that's
> > > with dependencies on, ordered subtasks, and missing all the less
> > > important stuff out altogether. I rarely look beyond the first dozen
> > > or so lines. With priorities not being inherited, adding a subtask
> > > to an  important job can cause it to plunge hundreds of lines down
> > > the list and be overlooked. I have to add priorities to everything
> > > by hand.
> > >
> > > Hope this is a reasonable idea,
> > >
> > > Peter.
> > >
> > >
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