bug: ';' gets error starting countdown timer in agenda

bug: ';' gets error starting countdown timer in agenda

[Ian Garmaise]

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In Agenda, I issue the ';' command to start a countdown timer.
I am asked how many minutes, then I get the following error


user-error: Command not allowed in this line

Timer doesn't start.  I have no problem starting a timer with C-c C-x ;

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, i686-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-08-29
Package: Org mode version 9.3.6 (9.3.6-17-g389288-elpa @
c:/users/ian/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20200224/)

current state:
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Re: bug: ';' gets error starting countdown timer in agenda

[Marco Wahl]

Ian Garmaise <ian.g@phorixsol.com> writes:

> In Agenda, I issue the ';' command to start a countdown timer.
> I am asked how many minutes, then I get the following error
>
>
> user-error: Command not allowed in this line
>
> Timer doesn't start.  I have no problem starting a timer with C-c C-x ;

Thanks for the report.

AFAICS this issue occurs if you press ; on a line which is not
associated to a heading.  So a workaround is to pick a headline before
the press on ;.

I installed a fix in the master branch which looks natural to me.
Concretely the name of the buffer is taken when no associated heading
can be identified (instead of erroring.)  BTW this completely complies
with the docstring AFAICS.


Best regards,
-- Marco

Re: bug: ';' gets error starting countdown timer in agenda

[Marco Wahl]

Ian Garmaise <ian.g@phorixsol.com> writes:

> Thanks for that, it is indeed true that picking a heading is a workaround.
> I was confused because as far as I can tell there is no relationship
> between the countdown timer and any headline.  I assume you mean the
> docstring for org-timer-set-timer, but maybe it is for some function in
> org-agenda.el

Sorry, I've not been clear.  I mean the docstring of
org-timer--get-timer-title.

For some reason a name gets associated with each timer.  The creation of
that name is done in function org-timer--get-timer-title.  Called from
the agenda the function trys to provide the name of the headline for the
current agenda line and it raises an error in some cases when this is
not possible.  And you found such a case FWIW.


Ciao!