RE: planner-id and tasks with identical descr iptions?

Sounds like the correct behavior to me. Planner does not check when you create 
a new task to see whether the description is the same as one that already 
exists. Each new task created gets a new ID. 

If you want to make copies of tasks and have them all have the same ID, then 
just create one and then use the emacs copying/killing/yanking functions. 

Can I ask what the use for this is?

Also, can you describe the case more when it did work as you expected? I want 
to make sure that's not a bug :)

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