Re: Problems with org-drill

[Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>]

Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:

> I don't know how many of you guys use org-drill as vocabulary learning
> software. I have started some weeks ago to learn Norwegian. The concept
> and flexibility of the extension (contrib) are great. But there is a
> problem (bug?).
>
> During drill-sessions empty cards continue to show up. About 30-40% of
> the questions show an empty screen. These empty screens are fully
> counted as cards in the mini-buffer counter. I use to skip those "cards"
> with "s" but I have the feeling that this skips real questions which
> just are not displayed properly. This would mean I'm creating
> knowledge-gaps in each session.
>
> Editing these cards with "e" doesn't seems to work. It only stops the
> drill-session with the point in the line where I started. There seems to
> be no rule involved in those "empty screens" showing up. (But I have the
> feeling they often occur after I give a card score (0-5) differing from
> the score of the last question.) Neither can I see that there are
> malformed entries which could explain the phenomenon.
>
> Does anyone else have this problem and know how to fix it?

Yes and you can remove the line

(set-window-start nil window-start)

from defun org-toggle-latex-fragment in org.el for a fix.  I use this
fix for a while and have not seen any (unwanted) side effects yet.

The real issue may be somewhere else though.


HTH,
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Marco Wahl
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