Re: [PATCH] Make today's deadlines "close" without lead time

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Don March <don@ohspite.net> writes:

> This patch makes a very small change to the function that determines if a
> timestamp is close to the current day, which is used for showing/hiding items in
> agenda views.
>
> Under current behavior, a deadline of today is close only if it has some amount
> of lead time. If your date is 2016-06-01, the following statements evaluate to
> nil:
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (org-deadline-close "2016-06-01 Wed -0d") ;; but this is today!
> (org-deadline-close "2016-06-02 Wed -1d")
> #+END_SRC
>
> One effect of this is that if you set =org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines= to
> =far= and generate the TODO list agenda view (C-c a t), then items only appear
> if you are one day past the point at which they should appear. For example, the
> following item does not show up in my current TODO list:
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> * TODO due today, no lead time
> DEADLINE: <2016-06-01 -0d>
> #+END_EXAMPLE

Thank you for the patch.

Did you sign FSF papers? Otherwise, a TINYCHANGE cookie is needed at the
end of the commit message.

Also, would you mind providing a few tests for this function, in
"test-org.el"?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou