Re: Repeating task not repeating

[Loris Bennett]

Hi Alan,

Alan Ristow <alan@ristow.info> writes:

Thanks for the information.  I had a vague feeling I had read something
about the problem, but failed to find it again after being away on
holiday.

Cheers,

Loris

> 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