Showing sections with inactive timestamps in agenda (org-agenda-manipulate-query-add)

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The agenda mode currently can only show sections with an active timestamp. Because I regularily have the need to recap, what I did in the past at a particular date, I try to add inactive timestamps to sections in my org files.

To make it more convenient to actually do the recap (currently I use live-grep in vim with telescope) I would like to include those sections in an agenda view. Emacs Org mode seems to have this feature: org-agenda-manipulate-query-add.

I would like to implement it as part of core, if it has a chance to get merged. What do you think @kristijanhusak? Do you have some suggestions regarding entry points? I currently found:

• Section:get_valid_dates_for_agenda() in parser/section.lua
• AgendaView:_build_items() in views/agenda.lua
• agenda/init.lua

My idea to implement this would be to add a method to AgendaView and Agendawhich just toggles a flag, which is false by default and gets passed toSection:get_valid_dates_for_agenda` to include the inactive dates or not.

The org documentation states, that org-agenda-manipulate-query-add just includes inactive dates in the agenda for the current view. I would interpet this that I need to close the agenda view and reopen it to get the original behavior. But there also seems to be a flag org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamps, which determines, if the agenda shows inactive timestamps or not and which is used to force a particular view mode directly.

So I am wondering what would be the appropriate user interface, if we try to be as close to Emacs Org mode as possible.