Re: [Orgmode] Re: BUG?: repeat items disappears in agenda

[Wanrong Lin]

I prefer the same way. I wish to have full confidence that anything 
scheduled but not done will show up in my agenda.

Thanks.

Wanrong

Bernt Hansen wrote:
> I'm using the agenda to keep my important tasks 'in my face' so they get
> dealt with.  This is normally the only place my repeating tasks show up.
> If I miss a repeating task for a few days for some reason the worst
> thing (for me) that can happen is it falls off the agenda for some time
> without being completed.  In that case I lose it until it comes up again
> and now it's really late.
>
> It's fine if the date resets on the next repeating date if it remains
> undone that long but I'd really prefer the task to stay on the agenda no
> matter what - until it is completed (and moves to some future date).
>
> Just my two cents :)
>
> Bernt
>
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > Hi Dennis, thanks for the patch.
> >
> > I am not sure yet if you are using the right condition though.  It
> > seems to me that extending the late-warning-period makes sens only for
> > repeating *tasks*, where the base date keeps changing each time you
> > mark this entry as DONE.  So maybe the condition should be that it is
> > today *and* that the item is a task marked by a TODO keyword.
> >
> > Or: maybe for Scheduled, we should no relate to the *nearest* match of
> > the repeater, but to the most recent one.  This way you would get
> > over- 
> > due warnings right up to the day where the next occurrence of this
> > item is scheduled.  So you would never loose sight on the item.
> >
> > Hmmmm.  More discussion please!
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> > On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:55 PM, Dennis J Lin wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Salutations!
> > >
> > >       
> > > > Please post your code, you can always do this, the copyright question
> > > > only star when we decide to use it.  And even then, 4 lines is very
> > > > little.
> > > >         
> > > Sure, please see it below :-)
> > >
> > > Dennis Lin
> > >
> > >       
> > > > > Basically, in org-agenda-get-scheduled, we call
> > > > > org-time-string-to-absolute passing in d1 (the day that we're trying
> > > > > to get agenda items for.)  The problems is that if d1 is today, we
> > > > > will get the closest day, which may be in the future, leading to the
> > > > > problem.  The patch that I've found was to not pass in d1 if
> > > > > todayp is
> > > > > true.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a 4 line patch implementing this (and I probably should write
> > > > > another one to fix a similar problem with deadlines), but I've not
> > > > > signed a FSF release, so I don't know if you want me to post my code
> > > > > here.
> > > > >           
> > > Now, this patch is now quite old (it was for 5.08) but it should still
> > > apply cleanly.  Looking at it, it might be whitespace damaged, and
> > > there should be a similar change for the get-deadline.  However, I
> > > think it gets the idea across (and seems to fix the problem for me.)
> > >
> > > Dennis Lin
> > >
> > > --- old/org.el  2007-09-05 03:16:41.000000000 -0500
> > > +++ new/org.el  2007-09-09 00:50:36.000000000 -0500
> > > @@ -18676,7 +18676,9 @@
> > >         (org-agenda-skip)
> > >         (setq s (match-string 1)
> > >               pos (1- (match-beginning 1))
> > > -             d2 (org-time-string-to-absolute (match-string 1) d1)
> > > +             d2 (if todayp
> > > +                     (org-time-string-to-absolute (match-string 1))
> > > +                   (org-time-string-to-absolute (match-string 1) d1))
> > >               diff (- d2 d1))
> > >         (setq pastschedp (and todayp (< diff 0)))
> > >         ;; When to show a scheduled item in the calendar:
> > >       
> >
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