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

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@google.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode version 6.30 (release_6.30); Batch archiving needs to be more clever
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:48:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <789D262D-8EF4-44C8-B0BB-5CC2FD1FACDA@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <menr5upjwcy.fsf@ahyatt.nyc.corp.google.com>

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 <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> 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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