Hi Adam,

this is now fixed, thank you very much for your report and the  
additional
details your provided.  That helped a lot.

The fix I implemented is different.  I have not tested it extensively,
and I would be very much obliged if you could give it a thorough
test.

Thanks!

- Carsten

On Apr 9, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Adam Elliott wrote:

> Using org 6.25e:
>
> Automatically resuming the clock after an Emacs restart fails under  
> the following cases:
>
> 1. If org-log-states-order-reversed set to t (default), and a state  
> change line precedes the clock line to resume.  Error message is  
> "Cannot restart clock because task does not contain unfinished clock".
>
> Example:
>
> *** STARTED test
>    :LOGBOOK:
>    - State "STARTED"    from "TODO"       [2009-04-09 Thu 13:50]
>    CLOCK: [2009-04-09 Thu 13:50]
>    :END:
>
> Reason: point is placed at start of state change line and so fails  
> looking-at test (org-clock.el:345).
>
> Possible solution appears to be to use the existing function org- 
> skip-over-state-notes when looking for the clock line to resume at  
> org-clock.el:343.
>
> 2. If org-log-states-order-reversed set to nil.  Error message is  
> the same.  Reason: point is placed *after* last clock line and so  
> fails looking-at test.
>
> Possible solution: test order-reversed and back up one clock entry  
> before looking-at test.
>
> I have combined these two ideas into a new function (patch  
> attached).  I don't imagine I've handled all of the possible  
> configurations of state change entries, log entries, and clock  
> lines, in and out of drawers, so this will probably serve more as a  
> basis for a solution than a solution itself.
>
> (If nothing else, on org-clock.el:346 there's "\\t" where it should  
> be "\t".)
>
> Adam
> --- /usr/local/src/org-6.25e/lisp/org-clock.el	2009-04-09  
> 10:27:00.000000000 -0400
> +++ org-clock.el	2009-04-09 15:52:12.437500000 -0400
> @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
>   (interactive "P")
>   (catch 'abort
>     (let ((interrupting (marker-buffer org-clock-marker))
> -	  ts selected-task target-pos)
> +	  ts selected-task target-pos resume-clock)
>       (when (equal select '(4))
> 	(setq selected-task (org-clock-select-task "Clock-in on task: "))
> 	(if selected-task
> @@ -342,16 +342,14 @@
> 	    (org-clock-find-position)
> 	    (cond
> 	     ((and org-clock-in-resume
> -		   (looking-at
> -		    (concat "^[ \\t]* " org-clock-string
> -			    " \\[\\([0-9]\\{4\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\}"
> -			    " +\\sw+ +[012][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]\\)\\][ \t]*$")))
> -	      (message "Matched %s" (match-string 1))
> -	      (setq ts (concat "[" (match-string 1) "]"))
> -	      (goto-char (match-end 1))
> +		   (setq resume-clock
> +			 (org-clock-find-last-clock-from-new-clock-position)))
> +	      (message "Matched %s" (car resume-clock))
> +	      (setq ts (concat "[" (car resume-clock) "]"))
> +	      (goto-char (+ (length (car resume-clock)) (cdr resume-clock)))
> 	      (setq org-clock-start-time
> 		    (apply 'encode-time
> -			   (org-parse-time-string (match-string 1)))))
> +			   (org-parse-time-string (car resume-clock)))))
> 	     ((eq org-clock-in-resume 'auto-restart)
> 	      ;; called from org-clock-load during startup,
> 	      ;; do not interrupt, but warn!
> @@ -455,6 +453,29 @@
> 	    (and (re-search-forward org-property-end-re nil t)
> 		 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))))))))
>
> +(defun org-clock-find-last-clock-from-new-clock-position ()
> +  "Attempts to locate last clock line, assuming point is at new
> +clock line position (see `org-clock-find-position').  If found,
> +moves point to beginning of last clock line and returns a cons
> +pair of the starting timestamp of the clock and the position of
> +the match; and otherwise restores point and returns nil."
> +  (let ((saved-point (point)) heading-bound)
> +    (save-match-data
> +      (if org-log-states-order-reversed
> +	  (org-skip-over-state-notes)
> +	(save-excursion
> +	  (org-back-to-heading t)
> +	  (beginning-of-line 2)
> +	  (setq heading-bound (point)))
> +	(re-search-backward (concat "^[ \t]*" org-clock-string) heading- 
> bound t))
> +      (if (looking-at
> +	   (concat "^[ \t]* " org-clock-string
> +		   " \\[\\([0-9]\\{4\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\}"
> +		   " +\\sw+ +[012][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]\\)\\][ \t]*$"))
> +	  (cons (match-string 1) (match-beginning 1))
> +	(goto-char saved-point)
> +	nil))))
> +
> (defun org-clock-out (&optional fail-quietly)
>   "Stop the currently running clock.
> If there is no running clock, throw an error, unless FAIL-QUIETLY is  
> set."
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