From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Bug in Agenda mode? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:39:32 -0400 Message-ID: <87mxwmqf17.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: <9FF66EA7-41C4-4292-9185-83164F4E9270@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O7YeG-0002Hz-6V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:39:44 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33117 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O7YeD-0002HZ-Pt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:39:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7Ye9-0007Aa-QX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:39:39 -0400 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:62011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7Ye9-0007AN-NX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:39:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: (J. David Boyd's message of "Thu\, 29 Apr 2010 12\:52\:08 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "J. David Boyd" Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes: > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> On Apr 29, 2010, at 4:51 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: >> >>> >>> If I do a C-a a, I see my weekly agenda, starting 'today'. >>> >>> Then I can hit 'd', and see today laid out better. Back to 'w', >>> and I >>> see the weekly agenda again. >>> >>> I can scroll down to tomorrow, hit 'd', and see tomorrow. But when I >>> hit 'w', I'm back to the week view, but now it starts on tomorrow, and >>> not today. >>> >>> And if I scroll down two days, and hit 'd', then 'w' to come back to >>> the >>> week view, I'm misplaced forward 2 days. >>> >>> Is this a bug, or 'just the way it works'. I'd never noticed before, >>> but I don't think I had actually tried that. >> >> looks like you have set org-agenda-start-on-weekday to nil. The is >> works like you describe. If you set it to a number, the week will >> always start on that day. >> >> The problem is that, if you are still in the current week, it might >> make sense to have the week start at today when you switch back to >> week view. But when you are further away from today, the week view >> must be constructed in a way that the day which was last shown in day >> view is also shown. Since you have opted to have your week view start >> at whatever weekday is today, Org assumes now that you want a week >> starting on the last shown day. >> >> Hmmmm. >> >> I am not sure what would be best here. >> >> - Carsten >> > > I can live with that. I only set the agenda to start from the current > day because I didn't really care about seeing days that had already gone > by. > > I think what surprised me the most was that, once I went to a specific > day, and then back to week mode, and I started on a different day, was > that I couldn't reset it to what it had previously been without exiting > the agenda and starting over. > > I don't consider it a problem, just 'the way it is'. Now that I know > that is how it works, I can deal with it. > > No, sorry, that's not saying it correctly. I have no problems > what-so-ever with how it works, I just didn't understand it. Hi David, I have two org-mode setups and of course they are different :/ At home I don't know what day of the week it is normally (honest!) and I want to see the next 7 days so my week starts from today (or whatever day I'm looking at). I normally just look at today so my agenda remembers to display day view since that is what I used last. Looking at and planning my entire week is something I normally due on Monday's during my weekly review. For work my week runs Saturday - Friday and it's useful to see the week starting from Saturday. If I want to see the week view (at work) hitting w brings up this week starting from last Saturday (showing the week including the day I'm displaying -- which is almost always today). At work I report my hours from Saturday through Friday. I often want a clock report of what I've worked on this week so I look at the week view and hit R and I have my report. Hopefully some of this description is useful and doesn't confuse you more :). Regards, Bernt