Re: [BUG] Future repeated tasks marked done in Org Agenda don't show as done [9.5 (9.5-g0a86ad @ /home/gustavo/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.5/)]

[Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 21:40, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The glitch is that some repeated tasks, when marked done in the 
>> Agenda, 
>> show no visual feedback that the action has taken place, as usual, 
>> and 
>> if you refresh the Agenda, they just vanish, which demonstrates the 
>> action had indeed taken place in the agenda file, just not shown in 
>> the 
>> Agenda buffer itself.  And, as far as I can tell, this happens to 
>> repeated tasks, scheduled in future.  For tasks scheduled for today 
>> or 
>> in the past, they appear to be done as expected.
>
> Confirmed
>
> Best,
> Ihor

This is a respectful bump on this one.

But not to bump empty handed, I did some investigation on this, and I 
think I know why the problem happens.

At `org-agenda-todo' when a task is a repeating one, the value of 
`org-agenda-headline-snapshot-before-repeat' stored at `org-todo' may or 
may not replace `newhead' depending on some conditions, which are:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(when (and org-agenda-headline-snapshot-before-repeat
	   (not (equal org-agenda-headline-snapshot-before-repeat
		       newhead))
	   todayp)
  (setq newhead org-agenda-headline-snapshot-before-repeat
	just-one t))
#+end_src

So that `newhead' is set to `org-agenda-headline-snapshot-before-repeat' 
only if `todayp' is non-nil.  And, indeed, this seems to be the 
condition which results in the missing visual feedback reported here. 
I've tried without it, and it works.  (I'm currently using built-in 
9.5.2, but I think there's no change in the function to current release 
9.5.4 and also, light testing with the latter suggests no change in the 
reported issue).

What I'm not sure is why this condition is there in the first place. 
That's the only place where the let-bound `todayp' is used in the 
function, so I may be missing why it exists and the purpose of this 
condition.  But one side-effect of it is that, if you happen to do a 
repeating task ahead of schedule, you won't see the change of todo state 
in the agenda.

Best regards,
Gustavo.