problems with Agenda Buffer

problems with Agenda Buffer

[Giovanni Ridolfi]

Hello everyone,

Org-mode version 5.13a
GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE

I have a problem with the interaction of the "global" Agenda Buffer 
(the one displayed with the "C-c a a " sequence) and some
variables defined in a file. 
Here the file:

---------------------------g-file.org
#+SEQ_TODO: READ | DONE
#+LINK: acs http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/toc.page?incoden=%s

** READ [[acs:ancham][Anal Chem]] 
   DEADLINE: <2007-10-29 lun +2w>   f 
----------------------------------------

I added the file to the Agenda files with C-c [ 

When I display the Agenda Buffer 

+ If I toggle the READ state in the Agenda Buffer using "t" and I 
  write the closing note:"Vol. 79, No. 20: October 15, 2007" 
   in the file I have:
   - CLOSING NOTE [2007-10-22 lun 10:47] \\
     Vol. 79, No. 20: October 15, 2007
   (so far so good)

BUT the deadline remains the same: DEADLINE: <2007-10-29 lun +2w>   f 
and does not change to:            DEADLINE: <2007-11-12 lun +2w>   f 
as it should.

On the other hand:

+ If I toggle in the file    ("C-t" on the heading)
  deadlines are adjourned

+ If I display the timeline of the file (C-c a L),
   then I toggle the (READ|DONE) state of a repeating deadline
   the deadline is adjourned.

+ If I  keep the TODO|DONE keywords  (and do NOT change them 
  to READ|DONE)
  and if, in the Agenda Buffer, I toggle the TODO with "t" 
  the deadlines are adjourned.

I also found a minor issue:

When in the Agenda Buffer
- I cannot open the abbreviated link "acs:ancham" clicking on it.

This is quite obvious and I resolved not abbreviating any link
that will be displayed in the Agenda Buffer ;-)   ,
but I'd like to report it since I believe that it could be 
related as well to the managing of local file variables in the 
Agenda Buffer.

I don't know if there wolud be an easy and bullet proof 
fix for such problems and I think I've just found satisfactory 
workarounds to live with the present behaviour, however
if them were resolved my lazyness would be happy  ;-)

cheers, and thanks for reading,

Giovanni
-- 
Giovanni Ridolfi

Re: problems with Agenda Buffer

[Carsten Dominik]

> Hello everyone,
>
> Org-mode version 5.13a
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
>
> I have a problem with the interaction of the "global" Agenda Buffer
> (the one displayed with the "C-c a a " sequence) and some
> variables defined in a file.
> Here the file:
>
> ---------------------------g-file.org
> #+SEQ_TODO: READ | DONE
> #+LINK: acs http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/toc.page?incoden=%s
>
> ** READ [[acs:ancham][Anal Chem]]
>    DEADLINE: <2007-10-29 lun +2w>   f
> ----------------------------------------
>
> I added the file to the Agenda files with C-c [
>
> When I display the Agenda Buffer
>
> + If I toggle the READ state in the Agenda Buffer using "t" and I
>   write the closing note:"Vol. 79, No. 20: October 15, 2007"
>    in the file I have:
>    - CLOSING NOTE [2007-10-22 lun 10:47] \\
>      Vol. 79, No. 20: October 15, 2007
>    (so far so good)
>
> BUT the deadline remains the same: DEADLINE: <2007-10-29 lun +2w>   f
> and does not change to:            DEADLINE: <2007-11-12 lun +2w>   f
> as it should.

This does work for me, I cannot reproduce this problem.
Do you have other files in org-agenda-files?  In what sequence?
What are the TODO keywords in those files?  What are your
clobal TODO settings (in the variable `org-todo-keywords')?


> I also found a minor issue:
>
> When in the Agenda Buffer
> - I cannot open the abbreviated link "acs:ancham" clicking on it.

Fixed (will be in 5.13e), thanks.

- Carsten