From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Clocking in emits an error Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:26:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3812.1339111585@alphaville> References: <3941.1339035262@alphaville> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52275) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Scm63-00048L-8v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:26:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Scm61-0003Vu-FQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:26:30 -0400 Received: from g6t0184.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.61]:44398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Scm61-0003Vq-BJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:26:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Avery Chan of "Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:22:06 +0800." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Avery Chan Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Avery Chan 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 ). > > 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