Re: Re: BUG?: repeat items disappears in agenda

[Dennis J Lin <djlin@uiuc.edu>]

Salutations!

> Please post your code, you can always do this, the copyright question
> only star when we decide to use it.  And even then, 4 lines is very little.

Sure, please see it below :-)

Dennis Lin

>>
>> Basically, in org-agenda-get-scheduled, we call
>> org-time-string-to-absolute passing in d1 (the day that we're trying
>> to get agenda items for.)  The problems is that if d1 is today, we
>> will get the closest day, which may be in the future, leading to the
>> problem.  The patch that I've found was to not pass in d1 if todayp is
>> true.
>>
>> I have a 4 line patch implementing this (and I probably should write
>> another one to fix a similar problem with deadlines), but I've not
>> signed a FSF release, so I don't know if you want me to post my code
>> here.

Now, this patch is now quite old (it was for 5.08) but it should still
apply cleanly.  Looking at it, it might be whitespace damaged, and
there should be a similar change for the get-deadline.  However, I
think it gets the idea across (and seems to fix the problem for me.)

Dennis Lin

--- old/org.el	2007-09-05 03:16:41.000000000 -0500
+++ new/org.el	2007-09-09 00:50:36.000000000 -0500
@@ -18676,7 +18676,9 @@
 	(org-agenda-skip)
 	(setq s (match-string 1)
 	      pos (1- (match-beginning 1))
-	      d2 (org-time-string-to-absolute (match-string 1) d1)
+	      d2 (if todayp
+                     (org-time-string-to-absolute (match-string 1))
+                   (org-time-string-to-absolute (match-string 1) d1))
 	      diff (- d2 d1))
 	(setq pastschedp (and todayp (< diff 0)))
 	;; When to show a scheduled item in the calendar: