From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: bug with respect to org-read-date-prefer-future Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:44:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87vd5cpiz1.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87eic0zuzj.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> <8739sgy0de.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Reply-To: Eric S Fraga Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Multipart_Fri_Oct__8_20:44:50_2010-1" Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45228 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4JO1-0006BR-BT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:17:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4IsE-0000W2-GJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:44:59 -0400 Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]:52262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4IsE-0000Vm-CD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:44:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8739sgy0de.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bernt Hansen Cc: Carsten Dominik , org-mode mailing list --Multipart_Fri_Oct__8_20:44:50_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:01:49 -0400, Bernt Hansen wrote: > > Eric S Fraga writes: > > > Recently, but I cannot say for how long, I have found that dates > > entered, for instance using "j" in the standard agenda view, no longer > > choose a time/day in the future but seem to default to the current > > year. For instance, today, typing "j 2 feb RET" (with a real space > > between 2 and feb) jumps me to 2010 February 2, not 2011. [...] > > Hi Eric, > > This was recently changed in commit > 03b178d (Do not prefer future when jumping to a date in the agenda, 2010-09-21) > by Carsten after an offline discussion with me. > > The behaviour changed for the 'j' command in the agenda only but not for > other date prompts. Ah, okay, so I am not totally losing it... ;-) > The justification for this was at the start of a new month you need to > enter the year to go back to a date a week or two ago in the agenda > which seemed inconvenient. > > Carsten noticed that I had set org-read-date-prefer-future to nil in > http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html and questioned why that was > necessary. After a short discussion he decided to change the default > behaviour for the agenda j command only. > > Please comment on whether this change is good or bad. The docstring > should be more clear about this change if we decide to keep it. > > Regards, > Bernt Well, I must say that I prefer the old way as it is more likely (on a simple probabilistic view considering the full twelve months of the year) that I am going to want a future date if I refer to a month before the current one. I can understand your justification for earlier in a month but I typically simply use, say, -7 or -10 then (as I use +7 or +10 say for days in the future). So, I guess my view is that the change is more bad than good... At the very least, I would like this to be configurable, if that is at all possible? If not, I am sure I can adjust! By the way, I guess I could see an argument for a date alone being for the current month, whether future or past, much as time can be considered already to be for the current day, whether future or past, if the variable is configured as I have it (time), but even then we should have a configurable variable? Regardless, the docs definitely have to change! Thanks, eric --Multipart_Fri_Oct__8_20:44:50_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D --Multipart_Fri_Oct__8_20:44:50_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode --Multipart_Fri_Oct__8_20:44:50_2010-1--