Re: [Orgmode] Feature request: inherited priorities

[Matthew Lundin]

"Peter Westlake" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Have you checked out the variable org-use-property-inheritance?

Also see this section of the manual:

http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-inheritance.html#Property-inheritance

- Matt