[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: planner-deadline patch for bugfix

[Michael Olson]

Chris Parsons <address@hidden> writes:

> planner-deadline was refusing to set overdue dates on 'nil-dated'
> tasks (something I have a lot of these days).  When patched,
> planner-deadline-days-left returns a negative value not a nil value
> if the deadline date is in the past on a nil-dated task.
>
> The previous behaviour seems to have be explicitly added, so I'd be
> interested if there was a particular reasoning for returning nil
> from planner-deadline-days-left. The rest of the planner-deadline
> code appears to assume the return value is always non-nil.

Thanks for the diff and the report!  Your patch seems to do the right
thing, so I've applied it to my planner-muse--mwolson--1.0 branch.

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