Re: Problems with refiling

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi Peter,

I am still having problems reproducing.

I did put your example into a file "peter.org"

* foooo
** refile me
** baz
* works
** one
*** two
**** three
* does not work
** a
*** b
**** c


Then I did these settings:

(setq org-refile-targets
       '((org-agenda-files :maxlevel . 3)
	(nil :maxlevel . 3)))

(setq org-outline-path-complete-in-steps t
       org-refile-use-outline-path 'file)

(setq org-completion-use-ido nil)


Then I followed your example: C-c C-w at "refile me".

Then I first need to type "peter TAB" to get the file name.
Then I do "does TAB".

I do get "peter.org/does not work/" in the echo area, a second TAB shows
"(complete but not unique)"

What am I missing?

- Carsten





On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:

> This is now officially a bug report, with a reproducible test case!
> Sorry there's no patch, but I'm at work and can't afford the time.
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:57:10 +0100, "Carsten Dominik"
> <dominik@science.uva.nl> said:
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:32:28 +0100, "Carsten Dominik"
>>> <dominik@science.uva.nl> said:
>>>> Hi Peter,
>>>>
>>>> the whole purpose of completing in steps is that you see the level
>>>> 2 headlines only after you have selected the level 1 headline.
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something here?
>>>
>>> Yes: the level 2 headlines never appear. Instead, the entry is
>>> refiled to the level 1, unless files are listed, in which case it
>>> doesn't move at all. I must be missing out on some secret keystroke
>>> to continue the step-by-step process, I guess.
>>
>>
>> Like pressing a few characters and pressing TAB?
>
> No, I tried that a lot.
>
>> Maybe you are using the mouse to select top level headlines?  I never
>> use the mouse for completion, and this might well be the problem.  
>> When
>> you click with the mouse, you are telling the program that you are
>> done completing.
>
> No, that works as you say.
>
>> Are you, by any change, using `org-completion-use-ido' as well? I
>> believe yesterday I forces off ido for the case of stepwise path
>> completion. There was a bug fix only yesterday, I think, about this.
>
> No, I'm not.
>
> I do have some new information to report, though! When your mail
> arrived, I tried typing and TAB just to make absolutely sure my report
> was correct. With use-outline-path set to Yes, step-by-step completion
> worked perfectly! It still failed with use-outline-path set to include
> the file. Feeling a bit stupid, I repeated the exact test where the  
> bug
> had appeared. And it still happened.
>
> Some trees offered their subtrees on pressing TAB, and some said "Sole
> completion", even if they had subtrees.
>
> This happened with two trees in the same file, and with two subtrees  
> in
> the same tree. But in the end I found out what was happening.
>
> Here's a test case that shows what makes the difference.
>
> ,----
> | * foooo
> | ** refile me
> | ** baz
> | * works
> | ** one
> | *** two
> | **** three
> | * does not work
> | ** a
> | *** b
> | **** c
> `----
>
> On "refile me", C-c C-w.
> Type "does", TAB, you get
>
>   Refile to: does not work/[Sole completion]
>
> Erase, type "work", TAB:
>
>   Refile to: works/[Complete, but not unique]
>
> Quit that, get rid of spaces in the "does not work" headline, and
> completion offers you its subtrees. Add spaces in the "works"  
> headline,
> and you can no longer refile into its subtrees.
>
> Peter.
>
>