Re: [O] [bug] timed repeater shows up in wrong place

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11/27/16, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I pushed a few more fixed in plain time-stamps and deadlines. Please
>> report if you find anything suspicious.
>
> please try this:
>
>   SCHEDULED: <2016-09-17 Sat .+2d>
>
> emacs -Q, with a 2-day span and show-all nil.

[...]

> in org 9:
>
>   1] it shows on both days
>   2] it shows 72x
>
> re 1, dunno if this was intended?

It is.

It shows first repeat. I assume you tested that yesterday, so you got
the repeat for today. Since the repeat didn't trigger "today" (which is
actually yesterday), it also displays a reminder for the scheduled item
there.

So, you have "72x" on "today" and a new repeat on the next day.

> re 2, org 9 is trying to do its counting from the original timestamp
> date.  i can understand the reasoning here, but do not want it for my
> use case.

It is, per 1-year old commit (3072cb28e8627066f465f1a4af85da88135d0549).
Details are given here:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/101884>.

> 72x gets buried.  it's a sudden pop up then a sudden drop off.  i want
> a gradual bubbling down like in org 8.  a .+30d repeater should show
> today, then tomorrow it should show 2x, then the next day it should
> show 3x.
>
> org 8 is nicer for showing the fact that 2d ago you were reminded to
> do it, and maybe did it but did not doneify or maybe were not able to
> do it.  it bubbles down slowly.

It's difficult to solve both problems. In any case, this will not happen
in Org 9.0.

I think the main problem is that you put too many things behind
`org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. Its name is misleading.
I think we need a new variable, or to change this one, to have both
behaviours possible. Suggestions (and docstrings) are welcome, we can
implement them in master branch.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou