Re: [O] `f' in agenda view

[Rainer Stengele]

Am 04.10.2011 23:04, schrieb John Wiegley:
>>>>>> Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> It always strikes me as odd that `f' in agenda view moves the item forward
>> by a day even if that leaves it still in the past.  Typically if I have an
>> overdue item, I just want to schedule it for today or a certain number of
>> days in the future, and as it stands it's even a bit non-obvious when I've
>> finally bumped it up to today if it's a few days old.  Shouldn't the first
>> `f' on an overdue item schedule it for today?
> 
> Just to clarify, by 'f' dave means `org-agenda-date-later'.  I believe he's
> using my keybinding for this command...
> 
>> I'm happy to hack something locally if the group doesn't agree, but moving
>> things around in the past seems like such a corner case that I thought maybe
>> this would be a better default behavior.
> 
> I agree with Dave here.  'f' on a past-dated item maybe should move it today
> on the first press, and then into the future on subsequent presses.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
+1

Me too I sometimes run into this situation where I just want to shift 
past-dated items to today.
I never had a use case where I wanted to shift an item from "past" to 
"past+n-days<today".

Rainer