Commands to increase/decrease due dates about pter HOT 11 CLOSED

An option to skip weekends sounds nice, yes! But even the basic ability to increase/decrease due dates would be a big step forward for me.

It would also be great to have a binding to clear the due date as well as to add one -- which could default to, say, tomorrow (or any relative date syntax understood by pter -- the user could just set the right string in the config).

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Uh, nice idea! I like that! Maybe even a mode/option that skips weekends? 🤔

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I started putting the changes into the codeberg repo even though they're not released yet. Increase and decrease has been added as well as the skip-weekend.

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clear-due is implemented, too.

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Awesome!

I'm testing this and will report any issues. Here's one: calling dec-due on a task with no due date results in a crash:

[CRITICAL] Pter crashed with exception: list index out of range
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/pter-3.15.2.dev0-py3.11.egg/pter/curses.py", line 3025, in run_cursesui
    window.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/cursedspace-1.5.2-py3.11.egg/cursedspace/application.py", line 59, in run
    raise exception
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/cursedspace-1.5.2-py3.11.egg/cursedspace/application.py", line 52, in run
    self.main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/pter-3.15.2.dev0-py3.11.egg/pter/curses.py", line 1753, in main
    self.functions[fnc]()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/pter-3.15.2.dev0-py3.11.egg/pter/curses.py", line 2739, in do_decrease_due
    due = utils.task_parse_due(task.task)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/pter-3.15.2.dev0-py3.11.egg/pter/utils.py", line 81, in task_parse_due
    return datetime.datetime.strptime(task.attr_due[0], Task.DATE_FMT).date()
                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^

Calling inc-due on a task with no due date also crashes pter ("list index out of range") -- but I would expect it to add 1d.

Same problem with calling clear-due on a task with no due.

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Yeah, when the except catches ValueErrors but ignores the KeyError 🤦 I'll fix it later today.

Meanwhile I was wondering; should inc-due/dec-due create a due date in case there isn't one yet? Since it's very easy to remove a due date it might be convenient to create one, too?

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I would love to have the ability to quickly create one, yes! But I'm not sure about the defaults.

With inc-due it seems intuitive -- pter could default to today and then increment per the config setting. Perhaps dec-due should default to today too? Defaulting to something like yesterday doesn't make much sense to me :) What are your thoughts?

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That's kinda what I had in mind, too. Adding a due date in the past for an existing task seems a bit stress-inviting. And if the user really wants that level of stress, they can keep hitting the same key to set the due date as far in the past as they need 🤷

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Sounds good to me!

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Alright, crash is fixed and due date creation is added!

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Seems to work fine, already using it! Thank you!

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