Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote: > >> Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: >> >>> On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:01:49 -0400, Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: >>>> >>>>> Recently, but I cannot say for how long, I have found that dates >>>>> entered, for instance using "j" in the standard agenda view, no >>>>> longer >>>>> choose a time/day in the future but seem to default to the current >>>>> year. For instance, today, typing "j 2 feb RET" (with a real space >>>>> between 2 and feb) jumps me to 2010 February 2, not 2011. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> >>>> Hi Eric, >>>> >>>> This was recently changed in commit >>>> 03b178d (Do not prefer future when jumping to a date in the >>>> agenda, 2010-09-21) >>>> by Carsten after an offline discussion with me. >>>> >>>> The behaviour changed for the 'j' command in the agenda only but >>>> not for >>>> other date prompts. >>> >>> Ah, okay, so I am not totally losing it... ;-) >>> >>>> The justification for this was at the start of a new month you >>>> need to >>>> enter the year to go back to a date a week or two ago in the agenda >>>> which seemed inconvenient. >>>> >>>> Carsten noticed that I had set org-read-date-prefer-future to nil in >>>> http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html and questioned why that was >>>> necessary. After a short discussion he decided to change the >>>> default >>>> behaviour for the agenda j command only. >>>> >>>> Please comment on whether this change is good or bad. The docstring >>>> should be more clear about this change if we decide to keep it. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Bernt >>> >>> Well, I must say that I prefer the old way as it is more likely (on a >>> simple probabilistic view considering the full twelve months of the >>> year) that I am going to want a future date if I refer to a month >>> before the current one. I can understand your justification for >>> earlier in a month but I typically simply use, say, -7 or -10 then >>> (as >>> I use +7 or +10 say for days in the future). So, I guess my view is >>> that the change is more bad than good... At the very least, I would >>> like this to be configurable, if that is at all possible? If not, I >>> am sure I can adjust! >>> >>> By the way, I guess I could see an argument for a date alone being >>> for >>> the current month, whether future or past, much as time can be >>> considered already to be for the current day, whether future or past, >>> if the variable is configured as I have it (time), but even then we >>> should have a configurable variable? >>> >>> Regardless, the docs definitely have to change! >> >> Personally I'm okay with reverting this commit if it is problematic. >> I'll leave the final decision on that up to Carsten. > > There is now a new option, org-agenda-jump-prefer-future. > The default is to recycle the setting of org-read-date-prefer-future, > but you can set your own specific preference as well.
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