Re: [O] `f' in agenda view

[Carsten Dominik]

On 13.10.2011, at 10:47, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> 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".

I think this is all very reasonable, and this is how it works now.

- Carsten