Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode version 6.30 (release_6.30); Batch archiving needs to be more clever

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Andrew,

On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Andrew Hyatt wrote:

> Has the behavior changed in this release?  My report was on 6.30, but
> actually I forgot to mention I have not reproduced it with 6.30, but
> with previous versions (since the feature was introduced).

Tststs :-)  How should I fix bugs if you use the wrong version
to send the report :-)


>  The issue
> was an error deep in the code (a stringp error, if I remember
> correctly).  When that happened, there were items in the org agenda
> (generated by maching on TODO items of type DONE) that could not be
> navigated to.  Hitting enter on those items gave an error because the
> item was not actually there anymore.
>
> I've confirmed your observation, that it does work right on 6.30 for  
> at
> least simple cases.  I'll keep an eye on this and see if it pops up on
> the current release.

you are right, this was a bug very early on in the development of the
bulk action feature.  But I think already 6.29c had it fixed.

- Carsten

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Org does take care of this possibility.  All I get in my simple
> > test case is the following message:
> >
> >   Acted on 1 entries, skipped 2 (disappeared before their turn)
> >
> > That is not an error, it is just feedback.
> >
> > Or are you really getting an error?
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> > On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Andrew Hyatt wrote:
> >
> > > Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen  
> > > and
> > > what in fact did happen.  You don't know hoe to make a good report?
> > > See
> > >
> > >    http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
> > >
> > > Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list.
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Batch archiving mode appears to just try the most obvious thing:  
> > > take
> > > each tagged member and archive it.  However, it always runs into
> > > problems, because it will archive a parent node, then try and  
> > > archive
> > > the children.  Not finding the children anymore, it errors out.
> > >
> > > Probably an easy solution would be to just gracefully handle this
> > > error
> > > by ignoring it and pretending the item was archived.  Alternatively,
> > > updating the list after every operation could also work.
> > >
> > > Ideal solution, IMHO: always archive parents first, then clear the
> > > children from the list automatically.
> > >
> > >
> > > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
> > > Package: Org-mode version 6.30 (release_6.30)
> > >
> > > current state:
> > > ==============
> > > (setq
> > > org-log-done 'time
> > > org-link-frame-setup '((gnus . gnus) (file . find-file-other- 
> > > window))
> > > org-clock-string-limit 50
> > > org-agenda-custom-commands '(("w" todo #("WAITING" 0 7 (face org-
> > > warning)) nil)
> > >                             ("n" tags-todo #("-live" 0 5 (face org-
> > > warning))
> > >                              ((org-show-hierarchy-above nil) (org-
> > > agenda-todo-ignore-with-date t)
> > >                               (org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-
> > > options t))
> > >                              )
> > >                             ("l" "Agenda and live tasks" ((agenda
> > > "") (tags-todo "+live"))))
> > > org-agenda-files '("~/org/work.org")
> > > org-agenda-include-diary t
> > > org-blocker-hook '(org-block-todo-from-children-or-siblings-or-
> > > parent org-depend-block-todo)
> > > org-completion-use-ido t
> > > org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
> > > org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t
> > > org-agenda-start-with-log-mode t
> > > org-clock-out-switch-to-state '(lambda (prev-state) (if (member
> > > prev-
> > > state org-done-keywords) "DONE" "STARTED"))
> > > org-deadline-warning-days 1
> > > org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t
> > > org-trigger-hook '(org-depend-trigger-todo)
> > > org-export-preprocess-hook '(org-export-blocks-preprocess)
> > > org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe)
> > > org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
> > > org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
> > > org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO(t)" "STARTED(s)" "WAITING(w@/!)"
> > > "|" "DONE(d)" "OBSOLETE(o)"))
> > > org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
> > > org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-
> > > drawers org-cycle-show-empty-lines
> > >                 org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
> > > org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks 'invisible
> > > org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options t
> > > org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
> > >                  [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-
> > > block-all append local] 5]
> > >                )
> > > org-agenda-ndays 1
> > > org-refile-targets '((nil :maxlevel . 3))
> > > org-emphasis-regexp-components '("         ('\"{" "-        .,:!?;'\")}" "
> > > .\n,
> > > \"'" "." 1)
> > > org-confirm-elisp-link-function nil
> > > org-agenda-mode-hook '((lambda nil (hl-line-mode 1)))
> > > org-enforce-todo-dependencies t
> > > org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done t
> > > org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
> > > org-from-is-user-regexp "\\<Andrew Hyatt\\>"
> > > org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "CLOCK" "LOGBOOK" "NOTES")
> > > )
> > >
> > >
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