Re: [BUG] org-id-find might change the major-mode of a buffer [9.8-pre (release_9.7.8-713-g62cbac @ /home/viz/lib/emacs/straight/build/org/)]

[Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>]

[செவ்வாய் செப்டம்பர் 17, 2024] Visuwesh wrote:

> Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and
> what in fact did happen.  You don't know how to make a good report?  See
>
>      https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
>
> Your bug report will be posted to the Org mailing list.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hello,
>
> I have code in my init that calls org-id-find to get the entry ID refers
> to.  When the ID is non-existent, the function unintentionally changes
> the major-mode of the current buffer.
> [ This almost caused me to lose a PDF file, but thankfully I could
>   recover it because of Emacs backup.  Admittedly this happened because
>   I was half-panicking and half-confused.  ]
>
> To reproduce,
>
>     1. emacs -Q
>     2. M-: (require 'org-id)
>     3. Visit any file (M-x find-library RET org-id RET)
>     4. M-: (org-id-find "non-existent")
>     5. Witness the major-mode change
>
> This all happens in org-id-find-id-in-file where when VISITING is
> non-nil, the buffer is (re)used whether or not it was originally in
> org-mode.  The problem is complicated by the use of find-file-noselect
> when MARKERP argument to org-id-find is non-nil.  Perhaps,
> org-id-find-id-file should check if the current-buffer is derived from
> org-mode before returning the buffer-file-name. WDYT?

The patch below is what I had in mind.  With it, I can no longer
reproduce the recipe above.

diff --git a/lisp/org-id.el b/lisp/org-id.el
index e247fab1d..17568ab31 100644
--- a/lisp/org-id.el
+++ b/lisp/org-id.el
@@ -705,8 +705,9 @@ (defun org-id-find-id-file (id)
 	   (hash-table-p org-id-locations)
 	   (gethash id org-id-locations))
       ;; Fall back on current buffer
-      (buffer-file-name (or (buffer-base-buffer (current-buffer))
-			    (current-buffer)))))
+      (when (derived-mode-p 'org-mode)
+        (buffer-file-name (or (buffer-base-buffer (current-buffer))
+			      (current-buffer))))))
 
 (defun org-id-find-id-in-file (id file &optional markerp)
   "Return the position of the entry ID in FILE.