Hi Kyle, Hi Kevin,
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 22:29, Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> wrote: > Kevin Liu writes: > >>> Is there any way to do this or are the docs out of date? >> >> I made a few quick changes to org-habit and it works prima facie. Will >> continue testing for a bit. > > The hourly repeater came in ec921a2a6 (Support hourly repeat cookies, > 2012-04-20), well after the "less than 1d" guard was added in > org-habit.el. So, perhaps it'd make sense to update org-habit.el to > support hour repeaters, particularly if habit users say there's a need. > > As a non-habit user reading through (info "(org)Tracking your habits"), > I'm a bit worried that your patch only works superficially. That node > talks about "graphs that show every day" and "colors for each day"; does > that sort of logic break down with your proposed changes? As far as I know, indeed, org-habit provides essentially a consistency graph, which shows in the agenda the regularity of the task for a certain period, being the day the least (and only) unit of the graph (1 day = 1 character). I don't think the proposed change would break anything (just a cursory look though) but, unless I'm missing something Kevin has in mind, I don't see how it would be of use, because an hourly repeater cannot really be properly conveyed in the consistency graph of org-habit. So, as far as I understand, there is nothing wrong either in the documentation or in org-habits. It is just that habits tasks are a particular kind of repeating task, and tasks that repeat in frequencies smaller than a day cannot be properly represented in the consistency graphs, though they work as documented in other cases. Kevin, how do you see an hourly repeater would work with org-habit's consistency graph? Or, more generally, what would be the purpose of an hourly repeated habit task? Best, Gustavo.
