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* org-indent-indentation-per-level may be broken
@ 2021-08-11  8:48 David Lukeš
  2021-08-11 10:31 ` David Lukeš
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Lukeš @ 2021-08-11  8:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Hi all,

I'd like to use visual-line-mode to soft-wrap lines in Org files, while
keeping continuation lines in list items properly indented:

- long line that goes on to the edge of the screen and soft wraps
  like I want it to

Instead of this:

- long line that goes on to the edge of the screen and soft wraps
like I *don't* want it to

I figured it should be possible to achieve this with org-indent-mode.
However, that mode also adds visual pre-indentation for each heading
level, which I'd rather avoid, I'd like the content under the headings
to start flush with the left margin. So the overall result should look
like this:

* Heading
- long line that goes on to the edge of the screen and soft wraps
  like I want it to

Not like this:

* Heading
  - long line that goes on to the edge of the screen and soft wraps
    like I want it to

I thought I could achieve this by setting
org-indent-indentation-per-level to 0, and historically, people seem to
have been able to use it for this purpose [1] (if I understand the
comment correctly).

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/97naje/what_is_everyones_org_mode_indentation_preferences/e4a6qqt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

However, when I set the option to 0 and start org-indent-mode, I
currently get the following error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument wholenump -1)
  make-string(-1 42)
  org-indent--compute-prefixes()
  org-indent-mode(toggle)
  funcall-interactively(org-indent-mode toggle)
  call-interactively(org-indent-mode record nil)
  command-execute(org-indent-mode record)
  execute-extended-command(nil "org-indent-mode" "org-indent-m")
  funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "org-indent-mode"
"org-indent-m")
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
  command-execute(execute-extended-command)

So it seems like the logic that computes the actual indentation based on
org-indent-indentation-per-level is broken? And maybe in more than one
way, because when I set it to e.g. 5, I would expect the amount of
indentation when I run org-indent-mode to increase appropriately, but it
doesn't, it's the same as with the default value of 2.

FWIW, I can avoid the error and get the effect that I was originally
looking for by applying the following patch:

--- a/org-indent.el    2021-08-11 09:30:45.000000000 +0200
+++ b/org-indent.el    2021-08-11 10:45:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -130,8 +130,9 @@
     (make-vector org-indent--deepest-level nil))
   (dotimes (n org-indent--deepest-level)
     (let ((indentation (if (<= n 1) 0
+             (max 0
              (* (1- org-indent-indentation-per-level)
-                (1- n)))))
+                (1- n))))))
       ;; Headlines line prefixes.
       (let ((heading-prefix (make-string indentation ?*)))
     (aset org-indent--heading-line-prefixes
@@ -146,13 +147,14 @@
                  (substring heading-prefix 1)))
             (t (org-add-props heading-prefix nil 'face 'org-indent)))))
       ;; Text line prefixes.
+      (if (> org-indent-indentation-per-level 0)
       (aset org-indent--text-line-prefixes
         n
         (org-add-props
         (concat (make-string (+ n indentation) ?\s)
             (and (> n 0)
                  (char-to-string org-indent-boundary-char)))
-        nil 'face 'org-indent)))))
+        nil 'face 'org-indent))))))

 (defsubst org-indent-remove-properties (beg end)
   "Remove indentations between BEG and END."

But that's just a workaround for my particular case, setting
org-indent-indentation-per-level to values greater than 2 still has no
discernible effect after these changes.

Here are the contents of the init.el file I'm testing this with:

(setq org-indent-indentation-per-level 0
      org-adapt-indentation nil
      debug-on-error t)
(global-visual-line-mode 1)

And here's my version info:

GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin20.3.0, Carbon Version
164 AppKit 2022.3) of 2021-06-11
Org mode version 9.4.6 (9.4.6-12-gdcc3a8-elpa @
/Users/david/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20210809/)

(Please let me know if I should provide some more!)

Best,

David


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* Re: org-indent-indentation-per-level may be broken
  2021-08-11  8:48 org-indent-indentation-per-level may be broken David Lukeš
@ 2021-08-11 10:31 ` David Lukeš
  2021-08-31 13:49   ` Timothy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Lukeš @ 2021-08-11 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Correction, the following is not the case:

> because when I set [org-indent-indentation-per-level] to e.g. 5, I
> would expect the amount of indentation when I run org-indent-mode to
> increase appropriately, but it doesn't, it's the same as with the
> default value of 2.

I got confused when testing the different variations, I was expecting
the indentation change to happen in the wrong place. Sorry for that!

So to be clear: setting org-indent-indentation-per-level to 0 is broken
and leads to the aforementioned error. Setting it to a value >0 behaves
correctly, as in, the indentation of the heading levels changes
accordingly.

Cheers,

David


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* Re: org-indent-indentation-per-level may be broken
  2021-08-11 10:31 ` David Lukeš
@ 2021-08-31 13:49   ` Timothy
  2021-08-31 15:24     ` David Lukeš
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Timothy @ 2021-08-31 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Lukeš; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

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Hi David,

> I got confused when testing the different variations, I was expecting
> the indentation change to happen in the wrong place. Sorry for that!

Glad to hear it’s not as bad as you initially thought.

> So to be clear: setting org-indent-indentation-per-level to 0 is broken
> and leads to the aforementioned error. Setting it to a value >0 behaves
> correctly, as in, the indentation of the heading levels changes
> accordingly.

Mmmm, that’s a pity. Is the patch in your original email a good fix for this? If
not, would you be willing to try to make a patch that neatly solves the 0 issue?

All the best,
Timothy

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* Re: org-indent-indentation-per-level may be broken
  2021-08-31 13:49   ` Timothy
@ 2021-08-31 15:24     ` David Lukeš
  2021-08-31 15:30       ` Timothy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Lukeš @ 2021-08-31 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Timothy; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

Hi Timothy,

Thanks for getting back to me!

> Is the patch in your original email a good fix for this?

Basically yes, though I've simplified it to this:

--8<--------------------------------------------------------------->8--

diff --git a/lisp/org-indent.el b/lisp/org-indent.el
index ea7ea07..2091083 100644
--- a/lisp/org-indent.el
+++ b/lisp/org-indent.el
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ useful to make it ever so slightly different."
        (make-vector org-indent--deepest-level nil))
   (setq org-indent--text-line-prefixes
        (make-vector org-indent--deepest-level nil))
+  (when (> org-indent-indentation-per-level 0)
   (dotimes (n org-indent--deepest-level)
     (let ((indentation (if (<= n 1) 0
                         (* (1- org-indent-indentation-per-level)
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@ useful to make it ever so slightly different."
                (concat (make-string (+ n indentation) ?\s)
                        (and (> n 0)
                             (char-to-string org-indent-boundary-char)))
-               nil 'face 'org-indent)))))
+               nil 'face 'org-indent))))))

 (defsubst org-indent-remove-properties (beg end)
   "Remove indentations between BEG and END."

--8<--------------------------------------------------------------->8--

It turns org-indent--compute-prefixes into a no-op, except for
initializing the various prefix vectors, on the assumption that when
org-indent-indentation-per-level is 0, there should simply be no
prefixes.

Disclaimer: I didn't really try to understand the entire reasoning
behind how the prefixes are computed, why it's done the way it's done,
what are the various edge cases etc. But AFAICS, my patch shouldn't
break anything that was working before: when
org-indent-indentation-per-level is greater than 0, everything runs as
before. And when it's 0, then instead of an error, something reasonable
now happens.

If there are disagreements about the details of what should happen, then
they can probably be discussed after this stopgap patch gets merged. For
instance, maybe there's a feature of Org Mode I don't use and which
should get some special treatment when org-indent-indentation-per-level
is 0. But seeing as no one seems to have been inconvenienced by the fact
that it didn't work at all until now, I'm not expecting much of an
uproar :)

Also, maybe it would still make sense to change (if (<= n 1) 0 ...) to
(max 0 ...), as a more catch-all way to ensure that indentation is
reliably greater than 0 (so that (make-string indentation ?*) doesn't
fail)? It's not needed with the when-condition placed as it is in the
patch above, but maybe just to be on the safe side. Dunno.

Best,

David


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* Re: org-indent-indentation-per-level may be broken
  2021-08-31 15:24     ` David Lukeš
@ 2021-08-31 15:30       ` Timothy
  2021-08-31 22:50         ` David Lukeš
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Timothy @ 2021-08-31 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Lukeš; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

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Hi David,

> Thanks for getting back to me!

No trouble, sometimes the “main people” (Bastien, Nicolas, …) end up being a
bit snowed under and things take a bit longer than one might hope, but we’ll
always try to get back to you 🙂.

>> Is the patch in your original email a good fix for this?
>
> Basically yes, though I’ve simplified it to this:
> *snip*

Thanks for this, it’s nice to see something so simple. Would you care to make a
“proper” patch (commit message and all 😉) so we can apply it to the repo
giving you credit? If you haven’t assigned the FSF copyright, you’ll just need
to add “TINYCHANGE” to the end of the commit message as per
<https://orgmode.org/contribute.html>.

All the best,
Timothy

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* Re: org-indent-indentation-per-level may be broken
  2021-08-31 15:30       ` Timothy
@ 2021-08-31 22:50         ` David Lukeš
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Lukeš @ 2021-08-31 22:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Timothy; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

> No trouble, sometimes the “main people” (Bastien, Nicolas, …) end up
> being a bit snowed under and things take a bit longer than one might
> hope, but we’ll always try to get back to you 🙂.

I realize that, I hope I didn't sound snarky, I was being genuinely
thankful :)

> Would you care to make a “proper” patch (commit message and all 😉) so
> we can apply it to the repo giving you credit?

Sure, sounds great, I'll try and send one in a minute! Let's see how it
goes.

> If you haven’t assigned the FSF copyright, you’ll just need to add
> “TINYCHANGE” to the end of the commit message as per
> <https://orgmode.org/contribute.html>.

When properly formatted, the patch looks bigger than it actually is, but
I'm assuming that's not a problem -- that the number of lines of code is
computed using something like "git diff -w"?

David


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