org-agenda-move-date-from-past-immediately-to-today could work for non-days

org-agenda-move-date-from-past-immediately-to-today could work for non-days

[Samuel Wales]

org-agenda-move-date-from-past-immediately-to-today moves a ts
immediately to today in agenda, but only if you do
org-agenda-do-date-later by one day.  if you instead do it by 7 days
or so, it will check and not do the feature.

i keep getting surprised by this, so i thought perhaps newcomers would
be too.  do you think it makes sense to drop that check and make the
variable work consistently for all time periods?  imo that would be
the least surprising and most useful behavior.

the drawbck of not dong so is that you take past scheduled, for
example, and move them by weeks into the future, only to find out
later that you moved them into the past.  but perhaps others have
different sensibilities and there is some reason for the check.

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Re: org-agenda-move-date-from-past-immediately-to-today could work for non-days

[Samuel Wales]

i am referring to this code in org-agenda-date-later.  i do not
understand why there is (equal arg 1):

	(when (and org-agenda-move-date-from-past-immediately-to-today
		   (equal arg 1)
		   (or (not what) (eq what 'day))
		   (not (save-match-data (org-at-date-range-p))))
	  (setq cdate (org-parse-time-string (match-string 0) 'nodefault)
		cdate (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
		       (list (nth 4 cdate) (nth 3 cdate) (nth 5 cdate)))
		today (org-today))
	  (when (> today cdate)
	    ;; immediately shift to today
	    (setq arg (- today cdate))))

i would want to move to today if needed, then the number of days, such
as 7 here:

  (defun alpha-org-agenda-do-date-later--week ()
    (interactive)
    (org-agenda-do-date-later 7))

but perhaps there is a good reason for restricting this variable to
controlling only a single day move?

On 6/20/21, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> org-agenda-move-date-from-past-immediately-to-today moves a ts
> immediately to today in agenda, but only if you do
> org-agenda-do-date-later by one day.  if you instead do it by 7 days
> or so, it will check and not do the feature.
>
> i keep getting surprised by this, so i thought perhaps newcomers would
> be too.  do you think it makes sense to drop that check and make the
> variable work consistently for all time periods?  imo that would be
> the least surprising and most useful behavior.
>
> the drawbck of not dong so is that you take past scheduled, for
> example, and move them by weeks into the future, only to find out
> later that you moved them into the past.  but perhaps others have
> different sensibilities and there is some reason for the check.
>
> --
> The Kafka Pandemic
>
> Please learn what misopathy is.
> https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
>


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