Re: Re: confused about logging

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:22 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>
>> Dan Griswold <dgriswol@rochester.rr.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a repeating task, like so:
>>>
>>> *** TODO Print copies						     :@PRINT:
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2010-03-09 Tue ++1w>
>>>
>>> I would like to have things set so that when I change the todo  
>>> state,
>>> and the schedule advances, then there will not be any logging done.
>>>
>>> However, with org-log-repeat, org-log-done, and org-log-done-with- 
>>> time
>>> all set to nil (indeed, it appears all org-log-X vars are set to  
>>> nil),
>>> I get a timestamp in a property drawer when I advance the  
>>> schedule, like
>>> so:
>>>
>>> *** TODO Print copies						     :@PRINT:
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2010-04-13 Tue ++1w>
>>>    :PROPERTIES:
>>>    :LAST_REPEAT: [2010-04-12 Mon 20:06]
>>>    :END:
>>>
>>> This happens with an emacs environment started with emacs -q, and  
>>> a file
>>> that contains only the above entry.
>>>
>>> I don't need or want such information recorded. But I don't know  
>>> how to
>>> stop it, and I don't know where else to look for the responsible
>>> variable.
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>>
>> Set the property
>>
>>  :LOGGING:  nil
>>
>
> I don't think that works - and I also don't think that there is a  
> way to
> do what Dan wants, currently.  The code in org.el:org-auto-repeat- 
> maybe
> looks like this:
>
>    ....
>    (when repeat
>      (if (eq org-log-repeat t) (setq org-log-repeat 'state))
>      (setq to-state (or (org-entry-get nil "REPEAT_TO_STATE")
> 			 org-todo-repeat-to-state))
>      (unless (and to-state (member to-state org-todo-keywords-1))
> 	(setq to-state (if (eq interpret 'type) last-state head)))
>      (org-todo to-state)
>      (org-entry-put nil "LAST_REPEAT" (format-time-string
> 					(org-time-stamp-format t t)))
>
>    ....
>
> and the LAST_REPEAT property is set unconnditionally. At least, that's
> how I read it.


This is correct.  Should we change this? LAST_REPEAT is used for the  
clock display
of repeating tasks.

- Carsten