Hi Nicolas

Ok, that makes sense, then. Probably there are other users who indeed will
rely on clocking in non-agenda files.

The thing which made it hard for me to identify the initial problem was
that the test CLOCK lines I had in the testing file where placed there
without a heading. When later in the day I wanted to clock in to my tasks,
 I then just ended up with a "outline-back-to-heading: before first
heading" error, but with no indicator which of my ~60 open org files was
the culprit. Maybe one could insert the file location in that error message?

Since org is so extremely useful, and I almost spend 80% of my day in org
files (also some of my collaborators are beginning to use it... it is
viral), I often have >50 files with all kinds of purposes open: agenda,
various notes, beamer, html-exports, wiki-authoring, project-organization,
bookkeeping... the thing is just too useful. So, I think clashes between
the many uses of org files probably are natural.

This being emacs  :-) I just decided to advise org-resolve-clocks.

(defun dfeich/org-resolve-clocks (orig-function &optional only-dangling-p
prompt-fn last-valid)
  (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'org-files-list) 'org-agenda-files))
    (apply orig-function only-dangling-p prompt-fn last-valid)))

(advice-add #'org-resolve-clocks :around #'dfeich/org-resolve-clocks)

Thanks for maintaining and developing an environment which made my time in
front of the keyboard so much more efficient.

Derek

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Derek Feichtinger <dfeich@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > org-resolve-clock loops over all open org buffers for detecting open
> > clocks (using function org-files-list). Is this really intended? I think
> > it should just loop over the org-agenda-files.
> >
> > I was working on an extension for clocking and was recording my testing
> > results
> > into a separate org file. I also had put there examples of
> > various clock lines to test regexps against. The example clock lines
> > effectively prevented me from clocking in to a task from my normal
> > agenda files.
> >
> > Since org has so many usages, I think it should not be assumed that each
> > org buffer is related to the agenda functionality.
>
> Clocking is not just an agenda functionality. Since every Org document
> can contain clocks, it makes sense to use `org-files-list' instead of
> `org-agenda-files'.
>
> You could test your extension in a dedicated Emacs process, with
> `org-agenda-files' being nil and Org documents opened piece-wise.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>