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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Cameron Horsburgh <cammo@netcall.com.au>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem with toggling intermediate state of check boxes
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:36:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAF71B79-6C21-4D13-83B9-FDE50D215C81@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090403102105.GN15359@earth>


On Apr 3, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 03:24:40PM +0530, Manish wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:
>>> Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> When I use C-u C-c C-c on a check box it deletes the check box  
>>>> rather
>>>> than toggles the [-] state as adevrtised in the manual. I'm using
>>>> version 6.25a as checked out of git several hours ago.
>>>>
>>>> I've never tried to use this behaviour before, so I can't say  
>>>> when it
>>>> first occurred.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a minimal two lines that exhibit the behaviour:
>>>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | * Headline [0/1]
>>>> |  - [ ] C-u C-c C-c will remove the checkbox
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> The manual says (I am behind the curve: I still run 6.24, but I  
>>> doubt
>>> either the behavior or this portion of the manual changed):
>>>
>>> `C-c C-c'
>>>  Toggle checkbox status or (with prefix arg) checkbox presence at
>>>  point. With double prefix argument, set it to `[-]', which is
>>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>  considered to be an intermediate state.
>>
>> You need to do C-u C-u C-c C-c to get to that intermediate state.
>
>
> Ah, that's a little bizarre. For some reason my info file was 6.21,
> which refers to the single prefix usage. I went to the top level node
> than went back into the org-mode info and it was 6.25.

See this discusion:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/11412

- Carsten

>
> I say this is bizarre because I update org-mode (and docs) most days
> and the info has been opened and closed many times since 6.21. The
> instructions match what you say.
>
> Cue the theme from 'The Twilight Zone'...
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -- 
>
> Cameron Horsburgh
>
> Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-03 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cammo@netcall.com.au>
2009-04-03  4:12 ` Problem with toggling intermediate state of check boxes Cameron Horsburgh
2009-04-03  4:37   ` Nick Dokos
2009-04-03  9:54     ` Manish
2009-04-03 10:21       ` Cameron Horsburgh
2009-04-03 10:36         ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-04-03 10:53           ` Cameron Horsburgh

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