Re: Repeating task not repeating

[Alan Ristow]

This seems like the same issue I was having last month. A patch was 
posted here:

https://orgmode.org/list/87wnpxv1d8.fsf@localhost/

As far as I can see, it has not yet been applied to the official org 
repo, but I applied the patch manually to my local org and everything 
has worked fine since.

I tried to check https://updates.orgmode.org/ for more info, but got a 
502 Bad Gateway error.

Alan


On 8/18/21 8:10 AM, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following MWE
>
> * Test repeating task
>
> ** My tasks
>
> *** TODO Test task
>      SCHEDULED: <2021-08-18 Wed +1w>
>
> works fine:
>
> * Test repeating task
>
> ** My tasks
>
> *** TODO Test task
>      SCHEDULED: <2021-08-25 Wed +1w>
>      :PROPERTIES:
>      :LAST_REPEAT: [2021-08-18 Wed 07:50]
>      :END:
>
>      - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-08-18 Wed 07:50]
>
> However, when part of a larger file, the state information is inserted twice:
>
> * Test repeating task
>
> ** My tasks
>
> *** TODO Test task
>      SCHEDULED: <2021-08-25 Wed +1w>
>      :PROPERTIES:
>      :LAST_REPEAT: [2021-08-18 Wed 08:02]
>      :END:
>      - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-08-18 Wed 08:02]
>      - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-08-18 Wed 08:02]
>
> Moreover for a similar task in the same larger file, when the state is
> changed to DONE, I get the error
>
>    user-error: Before first headline at position 1 in buffer gtd.org
>
> and neither the SCHEDULED date nor the LAST_REPEAT date are updated:
>
> *** DONE Read mail
>      SCHEDULED: <2021-08-18 Wed +1w>
>      :PROPERTIES:
>      :LAST_REPEAT: [2021-07-21 Wed 08:32]
>      :ID:       639369df-7c91-443a-89bd-b7f97719bda7
>      :END:
>      - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-08-18 Wed 07:27]
>
> I'm running Org mode version 9.4.6 on Emacs 26.1.
>
> Any ideas what I could look for in the larger Org file which might be
> causing the problem?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris