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 09:48:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C24C1CA.2010407@sift.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5896B53A-BDA5-4D02-9DD5-7121A8DB0165@gmail.com>
On 6/25/10 Jun 25 -9:12 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>
>> 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!
>
> Not a stupid question at all.
>
> There is no way, currently. Property values are string - the only way
> to make
> org-entry-get return nil is to not have the property defined at all.
OK, and there's no problem with this /except/ in cases where one wishes
to override inheritance, right? I.e., you never need to specify nil at
the top level; it's only when you need to cancel a value that you are
inheriting....
best,
r
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-25 17:45 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
2010-06-25 14:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 14:48 ` Robert Goldman [this message]
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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