agenda: past due deadlines *also* showing up under today's date

agenda: past due deadlines *also* showing up under today's date

[Sébastien Delafond]

Hello,

with 9.0.3, when using the timeline view of the agenda, I get a bunch of
"998 d. ago TODO [...]", "181 d. ago TODO [...]", etc entries under
today's date. 
They correspond to past DEADLINE'd tasks, that also each show up under
their respective deadline dates in that same timeline view. Note: this
is *not* where you tell me to complete these tasks in order to eliminate
the problem ;)

Is there any way at all to not have these entries clutter today's date
in the timeline, but instead *only* show up under their own date ? I've
experimented with a lot of the org-agenda-skip-* variables, but to no
avail so far.

I've also confirmed this didn't happen with 9.0, and in both cases I
started emacs with -q to make sure it wasn't my personal config
interfering.

Cheers,

--Seb

Re: agenda: past due deadlines *also* showing up under today's date

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Sébastien Delafond <seb@debian.org> writes:

> with 9.0.3, when using the timeline view of the agenda, I get a bunch of
> "998 d. ago TODO [...]", "181 d. ago TODO [...]", etc entries under
> today's date. 
> They correspond to past DEADLINE'd tasks, that also each show up under
> their respective deadline dates in that same timeline view. Note: this
> is *not* where you tell me to complete these tasks in order to eliminate
> the problem ;)

Never mind, then.

> Is there any way at all to not have these entries clutter today's date
> in the timeline, but instead *only* show up under their own date ? I've
> experimented with a lot of the org-agenda-skip-* variables, but to no
> avail so far.

I don't think so. Maybe we need to implement an equivalent to
`org-scheduled-past-days' for deadlines.

> I've also confirmed this didn't happen with 9.0, and in both cases I
> started emacs with -q to make sure it wasn't my personal config
> interfering.

AFAICT, the current behaviour looks correct.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: agenda: past due deadlines *also* showing up under today's date

[Sébastien Delafond]

On 2017-03-05, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> I don't think so. Maybe we need to implement an equivalent to
> `org-scheduled-past-days' for deadlines.

That'd be awesome :) In the meantime, I'll try and see if migrating from
"deadline" to "scheduled" can sort of achieve the "cleaner" agenda I'm
looking for.

> AFAICT, the current behaviour looks correct.

No problem, I understand. Thanks for taking the time to look into my
report !

Cheers,

--Seb

Re: agenda: past due deadlines *also* showing up under today's date

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Sébastien Delafond <seb@debian.org> writes:

> On 2017-03-05, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>> I don't think so. Maybe we need to implement an equivalent to
>> `org-scheduled-past-days' for deadlines.
>
> That'd be awesome :) 

Done in master as `org-deadline-past-days'. Feedback welcome.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: agenda: past due deadlines *also* showing up under today's date

[Sébastien Delafond]

On 2017-03-07, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>> On 2017-03-05, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>>> I don't think so. Maybe we need to implement an equivalent to
>>> `org-scheduled-past-days' for deadlines.
>> [...]
>
> Done in master as `org-deadline-past-days'. Feedback welcome.

Hi Nicolas,

many thanks for the feature, it works exactly as needed. Kudos for the
impressive turnaround time on your end :)

Cheers,

--Seb