Re: Yearly repeats on the agenda

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

SW <sabrewolfy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos <at> hp.com> writes:
> 
> > Indeed - I can reproduce that. It happens in org-agenda-get-timestamps,
> > in the call to org-agenda-format-item: this function takes a regexp
> > argument, remove-re, and removes any matches from the string it
> > produces. The regexp is constructed from the *current* date though:
> > 
> >           (concat
> > 	   (regexp-quote
> > 	    (format-time-string
> > 	     "<%Y-%m-%d"
> > 	     (encode-time 0 0 0 (nth 1 date) (nth 0 date) (nth 2 date))))
> > 	   ".*?>")
> > 
> > so it becomes "<2012-04-17.*?>". Hence it removes the date in the third
> > example above, but not in the other two.
> > 
> > The question is whether this is intended or not: personally, I don't see
> > any reason for the difference in behavior, so it might be a good idea to
> > generalize the regexp to match *any* year.
> > 

BTW, this should be "*any* date": monthly, daily, weekly repeaters would exhibit
the same behavior.

> > Nick
> 
> Thanks for the reply. Do I need to file this as a bug, or does this thread
> constitute a bug report?

I'll let the maintainers decide a) whether it's a bug and b) whether a
formal bug report is needed. 

> I'm behind a firewall/proxy and haven't setup email in
> Emacs, so I would just copy and paste the message from org-submit-bug-report and
> email it? I'm not (yet) an elisp-er, so I can't fix this myself.
> 

Yes, that would be the procedure.

Nick