Re: (BUG?) Problem with proper time frame in agenda.

["Juraj Kubelka" <Juraj.Kubelka@email.cz>]

On 8/8/06, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>
> On Aug 8, 2006, at 12:26, Juraj Kubelka wrote:
>
> > Hi All!
> >
> > I have org file like example below. But some time stamps are not
> > correctly displayed (see example below) in agenda view (org-agenda). I
> > use emacs snapshot (22.0.51.1) and Org-mode version 4.43. Is it
> > Org-mode bug or just my mistake?
> > + <2006-08-11 Pá 09:16>--<2006-08-12 So 13:20>
> >   - doesn't work: there is "2006-08-11 13:20" in agenda.
>
> This is a bug in parsing, when looking for a time it just takes one,
> not checking if this is a range.  I'll see if I can do something,
> probably removing the time-of-day display for ranges entirely.

...or be sure it always takes the right one. In some cases it does.

>
> > + <2006-08-14 Po 10:08>--<2006-08-16 St 11:20>
> >   - doesn't work: it is not displayed in agenda.
>
> The agenda assumes that there is only one agenda-relevant time stamp or
> range associated with any headline in the buffer.  When it has found
> one, it jumps to the next headline, skipping anything in between, to
> speed up parsing.  That's why each time you have several stamps or
> ranges, only the first is taken seriously.   Hmmm. need to think about
> this, what the right course of action would be.  Comments welcome.

Thanks for your explanation. For me would be more useful to have this
possibility. Example:

1. An activity has two parts: one from Monday to Tuesday, second from
Thursday to Saturday... or more parts. (an course)

2. I have several possibilities for the same activity, but I want to
decide later according to other activities.

 + better to have all possibilities in agenda. Then I can look for collisions.
 + maybe have possibility to say this timestamp is not important (will
not be in agenda view). But it is likely better just remove <>
characters around.

3. Kick off meeting notes:

======
** kick off meeting
 + early ideas

 1. something
    + I have to ask John no late then DEADLINE: <2006-08-11 Fr>.
 2. something2
    + i will prepare it tomorrow  SCHEDULE: <2006-08-09 We>.
 3. something3
    + ........... <2006-08-14 Mo>
....
======

Of course all examples can be (re)written by headlines. But org file
without these restrictions can be more powerful. I don't have to
rewrite my notes from meeting just because of org mode limitations.

Thanks.
Juraj