Re: How to say "I did that yesterday?"

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Tue Nov 22 2011, Erik Hetzner <egh-AT-e6h.org> wrote:

> At Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:40:35 -0800,
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> 
>
>> 
>> I often discover that I completed something a few days ago and I would
>> like to mark it done with the appropriate date as though I had marked it
>> done in the past.  That means, e.g., for a repeating event it might
>> repeat sooner than if it had been done today.  Is there a way?
>
> M-x org-todo-yesterday ?

Heh, that doesn't seem to work from the agenda, though :(

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Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Before first headline at position 1142 in buffer *Org Agenda*")
  signal(error ("Before first headline at position 1142 in buffer *Org Agenda*"))
  error("Before first headline at position %d in buffer %s" 1142 #<buffer *Org Agenda*>)
  (condition-case nil (outline-back-to-heading invisible-ok) (error (error "Before first headline at position %d in buffer %s" ... ...)))
  org-back-to-heading(t)
  (catch (quote exit) (org-back-to-heading t) (if (looking-at org-outline-regexp) (goto-char ...)) (or (looking-at ...) (looking-at "\\(?: *\\|[ 	]*$\\)")) (let* (... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... dolog now-done-p) (when org-blocker-hook ... ...) (store-match-data match-data) (replace-match next t t) (unless ... ...) (unless head ...) (when ... ...) (setq org-last-todo-state-is-todo ...) (setq now-done-p ...) (and logging ...) (when ... ... ... ... ... ...) (org-todo-trigger-tag-changes state) (and org-auto-align-tags ... ...) (when org-provide-todo-statistics ...) (run-hooks ...) (if ... ...) (put-text-property ... ... ... head) (when now-done-p ... ...) (if ... ...) (when org-trigger-hook ...)))
  (save-excursion (catch (quote exit) (org-back-to-heading t) (if ... ...) (or ... ...) (let* ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...)))
  (let ((org-blocker-hook org-blocker-hook) (case-fold-search nil)) (when (equal arg ...) (setq arg nil org-blocker-hook nil)) (when (and org-blocker-hook ...) (setq org-blocker-hook nil)) (save-excursion (catch ... ... ... ... ...)))
  org-todo((4))
  (let* ((hour ...) (org-extend-today-until ...)) (org-todo arg))
  org-todo-yesterday((4))
  call-interactively(org-todo-yesterday t nil)
  execute-extended-command((4))
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
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