Re: columnview dynamic block - different time summing behaviour for EFFORT and CLOCKSUM

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com> writes:

>> Also, if you mention a variable in the manual, please add #+vindex:
>> entry. Maybe even #+cindex: entry for "formatter", to make the parameter
>> more discoverable.
>
> I kept it to the format of the existing parameter descriptions, which
> don't create index entries. Happy to add one though. #+cindex would seem
> more appropriate, as it's not a variable?

When suggesting #+vindex, I was referring to
org-columns-dblock-formatter variable.

> On a loosely related note: the description of the :formatter parameter
> of the clock table does not have and index entry either. Should it get
> one too, then?

Within the scope of this patch, it is enough to add the index entry to
the newly added parameter.

More generally, we do want index entries for various parameters in
dynamic blocks and clock tables. As we do for header arguments:

#+cindex: @samp{file}, header argument

But that should be a separate patch.

For colview dynamic blocks, cindex entry may look like

#+cindex: @samp{formatter}, dynamic block parameter

>> Is there any reason why you did not remove the statistics cookies here
>> as well?
>> [...]
>
> Somehow (how?) the statistics cookies get removed in my current
> implementation. org-link-make-string does not remove them (I double
> checked). I would thus speculate that perhaps the overlay creation (to
> show description only) removes them? OTOH, I'm happy to add the
> org-trim part to make things more robust.

I see how. It is because CELL-CONTENT is not the original heading. It is
the heading name processed with `org-columns--clean-item'.

`org-column--clean-item' removes statistics cookies among other things.
It actually removes more, leading to some edge cases in your patch:

** TODO Foo

** TODO src_elisp{"Hello"} world


#+begin: columnview :id global :link t
| <25>  |      | <3>      |      |
| ITEM  | TODO | PRIORITY | TAGS |
|-------+------+----------+------|
| [[file:/tmp/test.org::*Foo][Foo]]   | TODO | B        |      |
| [[file:/tmp/test.org::*src_elisp{"Hello"} world][world]] | TODO | B        |      |
#+end:

Note how inline src block is stripped from the link description.

We should probably also change org-clock to use
`org-columns--clean-item'.

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