Re: Possibly Bug in function org-scan-tags

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> >     While the org-scan-tags funciton parses the first subheading(**DONE ss1) the match is
> >     successful and the function "my-org-archive-subtree" is called which sets the variable
> >     "org-map-continue-from" value to *beginning of line* and this variable is not set back to nil
> >     after the function call ends, which leads to infinite loop while parsing the subsequent headlines
> >     which does not match the "DONE" state(**NEXT ss2).
> >    
> 
> I think it's a bit much to expect org to avoid all possible infinite loops
> that a user function can get it into - it's up to you to write the function
> properly so that it does *not* lead to infinite loops.
> 
> In this case, I think you can write
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun my-org-archive-subtree ()
>   (let ((org-map-continue-from (point-at-bol)))
>     (org-archive-subtree)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> and be done with it - no changes to org needed. AFAICT, it deals with
> both of your examples without going into an infinite loop.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

Well, it doesn't go into an infinite loop but it doesn't work either,
so scratch that. I'll need to think about it some more.

Nick