* Clocking in emits an error
@ 2012-06-07 1:57 Avery Chan
2012-06-07 2:14 ` Nick Dokos
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From: Avery Chan @ 2012-06-07 1:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
I have a plain list with checkboxes. I am trying to set a clock in time using
`C-c C-x C-i`. This emits this type of an error:
byte-code: Before first headline at position 30 in buffer TODO.org
Here is the text of my org file:
---START FILE---
- [ ] Clean upstairs windows
- [ ] Lunch with Taylor
---END FILE---
How do I get the clock to start timing?
I get a similar error when I use `C-c C-x e` to set a time estimate.
org-mode version: 7.8.09
emacs version: 24.0.92.1
MacOS X 10.7.4
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* Re: Clocking in emits an error
2012-06-07 1:57 Clocking in emits an error Avery Chan
@ 2012-06-07 2:14 ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-07 2:22 ` Avery Chan
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2012-06-07 2:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Avery Chan; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Avery Chan <avery+gmane@ootbdev.com> wrote:
> I have a plain list with checkboxes. I am trying to set a clock in time using
> `C-c C-x C-i`. This emits this type of an error:
>
> byte-code: Before first headline at position 30 in buffer TODO.org
>
> Here is the text of my org file:
>
> ---START FILE---
> - [ ] Clean upstairs windows
> - [ ] Lunch with Taylor
> ---END FILE---
>
> How do I get the clock to start timing?
>
> I get a similar error when I use `C-c C-x e` to set a time estimate.
>
> org-mode version: 7.8.09
> emacs version: 24.0.92.1
> MacOS X 10.7.4
>
>
Does it go away if you add a headline?
---START FILE---
* Tasks for clocking
- [ ] Clean upstairs windows
- [ ] Lunch with Taylor
---END FILE---
Nick
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* Re: Clocking in emits an error
2012-06-07 2:14 ` Nick Dokos
@ 2012-06-07 2:22 ` Avery Chan
2012-06-07 23:26 ` Nick Dokos
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Avery Chan @ 2012-06-07 2:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: nicholas.dokos
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It /does/ go away if I add the headline. So I think you're saying:
1. Plain list checkbox items cannot have a time-estimate associated them.
2. Plain list checkbox items cannot track time.
3. Only headlines/TODO headlines can have these features.
I suppose that a TODO headline is effectively a checkbox; it would be nice, though, to be able to time separate checkboxes (though I suspect that responsibility would lay upon me to edit the appropriate org-mode file <grin>).
Thanks for the clarification Nick.
Avery
On Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Avery Chan <avery+gmane@ootbdev.com (mailto:avery+gmane@ootbdev.com)> wrote:
>
> > I have a plain list with checkboxes. I am trying to set a clock in time using
> > `C-c C-x C-i`. This emits this type of an error:
> >
> > byte-code: Before first headline at position 30 in buffer TODO.org (http://TODO.org)
> >
> > Here is the text of my org file:
> >
> > ---START FILE---
> > - [ ] Clean upstairs windows
> > - [ ] Lunch with Taylor
> > ---END FILE---
> >
> > How do I get the clock to start timing?
> >
> > I get a similar error when I use `C-c C-x e` to set a time estimate.
> >
> > org-mode version: 7.8.09
> > emacs version: 24.0.92.1
> > MacOS X 10.7.4
> >
>
>
> Does it go away if you add a headline?
>
> ---START FILE---
> * Tasks for clocking
> - [ ] Clean upstairs windows
> - [ ] Lunch with Taylor
> ---END FILE---
>
> Nick
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* Re: Clocking in emits an error
2012-06-07 2:22 ` Avery Chan
@ 2012-06-07 23:26 ` Nick Dokos
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2012-06-07 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Avery Chan; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Avery Chan <avery@ootbdev.com> wrote:
> It /does/ go away if I add the headline. So I think you're saying:
>
> 1. Plain list checkbox items cannot have a time-estimate associated them.
> 2. Plain list checkbox items cannot track time.
> 3. Only headlines/TODO headlines can have these features.
>
> I suppose that a TODO headline is effectively a checkbox; it would be nice, though, to be able to
> time separate checkboxes (though I suspect that responsibility would lay upon me to edit the
> appropriate org-mode file <grin>).
>
> Thanks for the clarification Nick.
>
You are reading too much into my response: I simply reacted to the error
message that you got and figured that perhaps by adding a headline, it
would go away. That's a decent workaround for the problem IMO. But I
don't know *why* there is such a limitation: it may be an implementation
accident, it may be a deliberate design choice or it may be a bug - I
don't know.
Nick
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