Yes. You are right.
After thinking about it I think the same.

But why is it allowed in '(org-toggle-checkbox &optional TOGGLE-PRESENCE)'.
To set a normal checkbox to 'partial state'?
Description from function: 'With a double prefix argument, set the checkbox
to "[-]".'

Probably it should not be allowed for normal checkbox only for parent
checkbox, which have children.

What do you think?

Regards,
Sławomir Grochowski






On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 1:25 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Sławomir Grochowski <slawomir.grochowski@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I was wondering how many states a checkbox has.
> > Based on https://orgmode.org/manual/Checkboxes.html I conclude that
> there
> > are 3 states:
> > 1. [   ] - not done
> > 2. [ - ] - an intermediate state
> > 3. [X] - done
> >
> > So I think all 3 states should be available to choose from in the
> function
> > 'org-columns-next-allowed-value''
> > for functions that use checkboxes.
> > In code this is a line
> >
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/tree/lisp/org-colview.el#n754
> >
> > So I would change it from this:
> > -      (`(,_ ,_ ,_ ,(or "X" "X/" "X%") ,_) '("[ ]" "[X]")))
> > to that:
> > +     (`(,_ ,_ ,_ ,(or "X" "X/" "X%") ,_) '("[ ]" "[-]" "[X]")))
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think that your use-case is not necessarily common enough to change
> the defaults. But we can introduce a defcustom here. Patches welcome!
>
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