Hi,

I can take a look at that.  Unless Nicolas already is working on it, of
course.

One additional point is, of course, that org-depend is not part of the
core, but was written as a proof of concept.  Is anyone besides Karl using
it regularly?  I don't want to break anything by changing it.  Maybe it
would, in fact, be better to first look in the local file and then try
org-id-find.

Carsten

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:

> * Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Hello Nicolas,
>
> > Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
> >
> >> Function org-depend-block-todo uses org-find-entry-with-id (from
> >> org.el) which is using org-find-property which starts with
> >> (goto-char (point-min)) not jumping to any other org-mode buffer.
> >>
> >> Is there a reason behind this design choice?
> >
> > What design choice?
>
> ... that org-depend is using the current document only.
>
> > 1. That `org-find-property' only searches in the current document?
> >
> > 2. That `org-depend-block-todo' uses `org-find-entry-with-id' instead of
> >    e.g., `org-id-find'?
> >
> > Property API assumes properties are local to the document. When you
> > search for property "FOO", it means "FOO" in the current buffer, not
> > "FOO" is some other random Org file somewhere in your hard-disk.
>
> Ah, good to know.
>
> Is there a document, where someone is able to learn those
> "meta-patterns" like "Property API assumes properties are local to
> the document"?
>
> > ID property is special for that matter.
>
> Clearly, when you take a look at "id:example-id".
>
> > Whenever Org sets such a property, it updates a location database
> > (which means ID properties shouldn't be changed "manually").
>
> Being curious: since I only set IDs manually (by typing them into
> the PROPERTIES drawer by myself), do I have to take care of
> "updating some database"?
>
> > So, ID property can efficiently be used to refer to remote
> > documents.
>
> ... which I find ultimately useful to get a "personal wiki".
>
> > As a consequence, it may be useful to use `org-id-find' and
> > fall-back to `org-find-property' in `org-depend-block-todo'.
> >
> >> Who is the current maintainer of org-depend.el? Carsten ist
> >> listed as author in the header.
> >
> > I guess nobody. Do you want to take care of it?
>
> Trust me: with my very limited knowledge of Elisp and Org-mode
> internals, you do not want to see a commit from my side that is
> something other than a typo fix or documentation. ;-)
>
> Can you do us the favour?
>
> Thanks for your insight!
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