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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: agenda: past due deadlines *also* showing up under today's date
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:18:20 +0100
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Hello,

S=C3=A9bastien Delafond <seb@debian.org> writes:

> with 9.0.3, when using the timeline view of the agenda, I get a bunch of
> "998 d. ago TODO [...]", "181 d. ago TODO [...]", etc entries under
> today's date.=20
> They correspond to past DEADLINE'd tasks, that also each show up under
> their respective deadline dates in that same timeline view. Note: this
> is *not* where you tell me to complete these tasks in order to eliminate
> the problem ;)

Never mind, then.

> Is there any way at all to not have these entries clutter today's date
> in the timeline, but instead *only* show up under their own date ? I've
> experimented with a lot of the org-agenda-skip-* variables, but to no
> avail so far.

I don't think so. Maybe we need to implement an equivalent to
`org-scheduled-past-days' for deadlines.

> I've also confirmed this didn't happen with 9.0, and in both cases I
> started emacs with -q to make sure it wasn't my personal config
> interfering.

AFAICT, the current behaviour looks correct.


Regards,

--=20
Nicolas Goaziou