Re: Docs submitted (Was Re: Advice sought on managing decision alternatives.)

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <tehom@panix.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Docs submitted (Was Re: Advice sought on managing decision alternatives.)
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:34:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D093F9DA-127F-4017-B750-DC31F38F86F9@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1062.24.62.30.15.1234314505.squirrel@mail.panix.com>

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On Feb 11, 2009, at 2:08 AM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote:

>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Manish wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, I've add comments, keywords, and some docstrings I forgot to
>>>>> org-choose.el, and I wrote a standalone doc. Both are attached.
>>>>
>>>> This is very intriguing functionality. I tried to follow your and
>>>> Casten's
>>>> earlier exchanges but could understand only a little. So I tried to
>>>> follow
>>>> your tutorial but I am getting stuck at switching the  
>>>> `choosenness' of
>>>> items.
>>>> I get following error when I try to switch to any state from "no
>>>> state".
>>>> Once
>>>> I assign a state by typing it out manually (as opposed to using  
>>>> state
>>>> switching commands), I can then switch between states but the error
>>>> repeats
>>>> when I try to switch to "MAYBE" state.
>>>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | save-excursion: Symbol's function definition is void:
>>>> outline-up-heading-all
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> Hmm, not sure if I messed up there - so I fixed this bug. Tom,
>>> please check if I did this right.
>>
>> This issue is gone for me.  Thanks.
>>
>>>> So far, my understaning is that only one item can be in "YES"  
>>>> state. If
>>>> I
>>>> try
>>>> to switch another item to "YES" then the existing "YES" will be  
>>>> demoted
>>>> to "MAYBE". So for a two-state choosenness only one item can be in
>>>> CHOOSE
>>>> state while all others will switch to NOT_CHOOSEN state.. is that
>>>> understanding correct?
>>
>> With three choices for choosenness, it works as I expected (only  
>> one item
>> in
>> CHOSEN state at a time) but for more choices like:
>>
>> #+CHOOSE_TODO: REJECTED(r) NOT_CHOSEN(n,-) MAYBE(,0)
>> LEANING_TOWARDS(l) CHOSEN(c,+)
>>
>> it allows multiple items to be in CHOSEN state.  How do we  
>> interpret that?
>
> Having fetched and set up 6.22b, I can now reproduce it.
>
> This bug is simple.  In "Setting it all up" at the end of org- 
> choose.el,
> in 6.22b a quote got introduced before progn.  That's all.  With that
> quote, it "evaluated" a quoted form and did nothing.  I'd send a  
> patch,
> but ISTM it's easier to just press backspace once.  It's here:
>
> (eval-after-load 'org
>  '(progn
> ;;^--HERE.
>     (add-to-list 'org-todo-setup-filter-hook
> 		  #'org-choose-setup-filter)
>     (add-to-list 'org-todo-get-default-hook
> 		  #'org-choose-get-default-mark)
>     (add-to-list 'org-trigger-hook
> 		  #'org-choose-keep-sensible)
>     (add-to-list 'org-todo-interpretation-widgets
> 		  '(:tag "Choose   (to record decisions)" choose)
> 		  'append)
>   ))

Hi Tom,

I added the quote because without it, evaluating org-chose.el did error.
It was my understanding that such a form has to be quoted.  Am
I missing something here?

- Carsten

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