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

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Dennis J Lin <djlin@uiuc.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: BUG?: repeat items disappears in agenda
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:42:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7B164E1D-3884-4BBF-AB2B-E90068254CEF@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874pdaomid.fsf@uiuc.edu>

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.

- Carsten

On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Dennis J Lin wrote:

> Salutations!
>
> Please note that I'm sending this from gnus talking to gmane, and this
> is the first time that I've tried posting anything to gmane (or using
> gnus), so apologies if the electrons don't exactly align.
>
> Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> repeat TODO items has changed. Seems it did not. I am not sure  
>> whether
>> this is considered a bug, but in short the symptom is this:
>>
>> Suppose I have a repeat task:
>>
>> * TODO [#A] A repeat task test
>> SCHEDULED: <2008-01-15 Tue +1w>
>>
>> And today is Friday, Jan 18. The task will show in my agenda for
>> today. But, if I change the above task to:
>>
>> * TODO [#A] A repeat task test
>> SCHEDULED: <2008-01-14 Mon +1w>
>>
>> It will disappear from my agenda for today. But it still shows up in
>> my agenda for Monday, Jan 14, and Monday, Jan 21. It seems to me that
>> once today's date is closer to the next occurrence of a repeat item
>> than the overdue one, the item will disappear.
>
> I've noticed this, and I've actually been carrying a personal patch
> for this -- (yes, there is a TODO entry to write it up an send it in,
> which is why I'm writing this...)
>
> 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.
>
> Dennis Lin
>
>
>
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