From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>
Cc: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `f' in agenda view
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:33:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27933105-54BF-487F-B0C1-05DD02CC9665@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E96A594.30102@online.de>
On 13.10.2011, at 10:47, Rainer Stengele wrote:
> Am 04.10.2011 23:04, schrieb John Wiegley:
>>>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>>
>>> It always strikes me as odd that `f' in agenda view moves the item forward
>>> by a day even if that leaves it still in the past. Typically if I have an
>>> overdue item, I just want to schedule it for today or a certain number of
>>> days in the future, and as it stands it's even a bit non-obvious when I've
>>> finally bumped it up to today if it's a few days old. Shouldn't the first
>>> `f' on an overdue item schedule it for today?
>>
>> Just to clarify, by 'f' dave means `org-agenda-date-later'. I believe he's
>> using my keybinding for this command...
>>
>>> I'm happy to hack something locally if the group doesn't agree, but moving
>>> things around in the past seems like such a corner case that I thought maybe
>>> this would be a better default behavior.
>>
>> I agree with Dave here. 'f' on a past-dated item maybe should move it today
>> on the first press, and then into the future on subsequent presses.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
> +1
>
> Me too I sometimes run into this situation where I just want to shift past-dated items to today.
> I never had a use case where I wanted to shift an item from "past" to "past+n-days<today".
I think this is all very reasonable, and this is how it works now.
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-16 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 19:35 `f' in agenda view Dave Abrahams
2011-10-04 21:04 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-04 22:30 ` `org-agenda-date-later' (was: `f') " Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13 8:47 ` `f' " Rainer Stengele
2011-10-13 9:38 ` Rainer Stengele
2011-10-13 13:59 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13 19:09 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-14 14:28 ` Rainer Stengele
2011-10-16 10:33 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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