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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Luciano Passuello <lucianop@litemind.com>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net
Subject: Re: Bug: Archiving items with org-attach-archive-delete set to 'query' always asks for confirmation
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 21:43:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhxtr82r.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACqKfLeq8PE+F1yLB0YzEf4CCVv+qib5f3G0Px06WtVxqgSpcg@mail.gmail.com>

Luciano Passuello <lucianop@litemind.com> writes:

> When I set org-attach-archive-delete to query, Org is supposed to ask
> me for confirmation when archiving entries with attachments. However,
> I am always asked for confirmation,  regardless if the item has
> attachments in the first place. This is to me clearly undesirable
> behavior.

I agree, that doesn't sound desirable (though I've never used this
feature, so perhaps I'm missing something).

> Looking at the source code for org-attach, at line 573, that's indeed
> what code tells us.
> https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/org-attach.el
>
> My uninformed suggestion is to call org-attach-delete-all without the
> force parameter, using the confirmation code already in
> org-attach-delete-all.

That would cover the org-attach-archive-delete=query case, but it'd also
ask for confirmation in the org-attach-archive-delete=t case.

How about this?

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] org-attach: Don't query unnecessarily about archiving

* lisp/org-attach.el (org-attach-archive-delete-maybe): Don't query
about deleting attachments if the entry doesn't have any attachments.
---
 lisp/org-attach.el | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/org-attach.el b/lisp/org-attach.el
index 192815f4f..53389f782 100644
--- a/lisp/org-attach.el
+++ b/lisp/org-attach.el
@@ -574,10 +574,8 @@ (defun org-attach-archive-delete-maybe ()
   "Maybe delete subtree attachments when archiving.
 This function is called by `org-archive-hook'.  The option
 `org-attach-archive-delete' controls its behavior."
-  (when (if (eq org-attach-archive-delete 'query)
-	    (yes-or-no-p "Delete all attachments? ")
-	  org-attach-archive-delete)
-    (org-attach-delete-all t)))
+  (when org-attach-archive-delete
+    (org-attach-delete-all (not (eq org-attach-archive-delete 'query)))))
 
 \f
 ;; Attach from dired.
-- 
2.18.0

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-11  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-10 17:26 Bug: Archiving items with org-attach-archive-delete set to 'query' always asks for confirmation Luciano Passuello
2018-08-11  1:43 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2018-08-11 19:53   ` Luciano Passuello
2018-08-15 22:52     ` Kyle Meyer

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