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From: Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Possible bug in ordered tasks
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:23:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C24ADBD.3090204@sift.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4264D53A-92CE-43C1-A7CC-5526DDD90BC4@gmail.com>

On 6/25/10 Jun 25 -2:03 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
> 
>> I have found what I believe to be a bug in handling ordered subtasks.
>> Here is the behavior:
>>
>> I have a top level set of tasks that is ordered.
>>
>> One of the outline items below the top level set is a grab bag of tasks
>> that will be performed in parallel.  So this task is NOT ordered
>> (ORDERED: nil).
>>
>> The problem is that the blocking behavior from ordered tasks seems to be
>> inherited from the top level task list into the second level of the
>> outline, even though the ORDERED property at the second level is
>> explicitly overridden.
>>
>> I am attaching an org file that displays this issue.  To see the
>> problem, put your cursor on the "Bar" task and attempt to change its
>> status to DONE.
> 
> The problem here is that the value of the ORDERED property is the string
> "nil", and that is of course not nil!
> 
> I have introduced a special case to have "nil" interpreted as nil here,
> because your use case makes a lot of sense.

Oh, dear.  That makes perfect sense, now that I think of it.

Question:  what is the proper way to get a NIL into a property?  Are we
to use () instead of "nil"?  Or are property values always interpreted
as strings?

Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question!

thanks!

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-25 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-18 15:42 Possible bug in ordered tasks Robert Goldman
2010-06-25  7:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 13:23   ` Robert Goldman [this message]
2010-06-25 14:12     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 14:48       ` Robert Goldman
2010-06-25 16:21         ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 18:55       ` Bernt Hansen
2010-06-26  5:55         ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-26 11:34           ` Bernt Hansen

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