Re: Repeating task hourly

[Kevin Liu <kevin@nivekuil.com>]

On 29 July 2020 08:15, Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com> wrote:

> Furthermore, considering the only thing org-habit does is to provide
> the consistency graph for the task, and if this does not really work
> for hourly repeaters, I still don't see the gain here.  And there
> would be other ways, in my view more appropriate ones, to separate
> some tasks, if that's desired.  IMHO, what you are proposing is just
> eliminating an error message which was deliberately placed there by
> the author, considering what org-habit is designed to do.  But this is
> just an user speaking, take this as a data point.

The graph works for hourly repeaters in exactly the same way as it works
in all other cases.  It illustrates whether the task was done on a given
day.

The gain is being able to use org-habit at all with hourly repeating
tasks.  At the moment, this is unnecessarily precluded, and not even by
the error I removed; the actual error that pops up if you build the
agenda with an hourly habit is rather cryptic:

if: Invalid duration string: .+5h

As Kyle mentioned, I don't think authorial intent counts for a whole lot
here since the code was last touched in 2009, years before hourly
repeaters were added.