Re: [bug] org-refile makes ido think that some candidates are directories

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

i have not been able to track this down further.  has anybody taken a
look at it?

On 8/27/13, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> org-refile makes ido think that every entry that is in the
> current buffer is a directory, while every entry that is
> in another buffer is a file.
>
> ===
>
> You can confirm by loading ido and doing this:
>
>   (setq org-refile-use-outline-path t)
>   (setq org-outline-path-complete-in-steps nil)
>   (setq org-completion-use-ido t)
>
> Now do org-refile and look at the candidate list.  Please
> note the addition of the filename at the end of the entries
> that are not in the current buffer, and probably a different
> font.  You can use the ido keys for navigating directories,
> and they will only go to the entries in the current buffer.
>
> ===
>
> The relevant part of org.el seems to be this, but I do not
> understand it:
>
>     (setq answ (funcall cfunc prompt tbl nil (not new-nodes)
> 			nil 'org-refile-history (or cdef (car org-refile-history))))
>
> This is FAR beyond my ability to debug, but I suspect
> that the artificial distinction between the current buffer
> and other buffers, treating one as a directory and the other
> as a file, might be related to several long-standing, subtle
> but extremely annoying bugs involving the default and
> history.  But I could be wrong about that.
>
> For example, if you previously refiled, there is always an
> extra entry that has no marker and errors if you select it,
> and it is often the default candidate :(.  And it is
> impossible to narrow to a subtree of the default subtree :(.
> I have previously reported at least one of these bugs.
>
> ===
>
> In any case, IMO, ido should treat all olpaths as if they
> were files.  Can anybody help track this down?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Samuel
>
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