Re: Org-mode version 6.30 (release_6.30); Batch archiving needs to be more clever

[Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@google.com>]

Has the behavior changed in this release?  My report was on 6.30, but
actually I forgot to mention I have not reproduced it with 6.30, but
with previous versions (since the feature was introduced).  The issue
was an error deep in the code (a stringp error, if I remember
correctly).  When that happened, there were items in the org agenda
(generated by maching on TODO items of type DONE) that could not be
navigated to.  Hitting enter on those items gave an error because the
item was not actually there anymore.

I've confirmed your observation, that it does work right on 6.30 for at
least simple cases.  I'll keep an eye on this and see if it pops up on
the current release.

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Org does take care of this possibility.  All I get in my simple
> test case is the following message:
>
>    Acted on 1 entries, skipped 2 (disappeared before their turn)
>
> That is not an error, it is just feedback.
>
> Or are you really getting an error?
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Andrew Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>> Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and
>> what in fact did happen.  You don't know hoe to make a good report?
>> See
>>
>>     http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
>>
>> Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Batch archiving mode appears to just try the most obvious thing: take
>> each tagged member and archive it.  However, it always runs into
>> problems, because it will archive a parent node, then try and archive
>> the children.  Not finding the children anymore, it errors out.
>>
>> Probably an easy solution would be to just gracefully handle this
>> error
>> by ignoring it and pretending the item was archived.  Alternatively,
>> updating the list after every operation could also work.
>>
>> Ideal solution, IMHO: always archive parents first, then clear the
>> children from the list automatically.
>>
>>
>> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
>> Package: Org-mode version 6.30 (release_6.30)
>>
>> current state:
>> ==============
>> (setq
>> org-log-done 'time
>> org-link-frame-setup '((gnus . gnus) (file . find-file-other-window))
>> org-clock-string-limit 50
>> org-agenda-custom-commands '(("w" todo #("WAITING" 0 7 (face org-
>> warning)) nil)
>>                              ("n" tags-todo #("-live" 0 5 (face org-
>> warning))
>>                               ((org-show-hierarchy-above nil) (org-
>> agenda-todo-ignore-with-date t)
>>                                (org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-
>> options t))
>>                               )
>>                              ("l" "Agenda and live tasks" ((agenda
>> "") (tags-todo "+live"))))
>> org-agenda-files '("~/org/work.org")
>> org-agenda-include-diary t
>> org-blocker-hook '(org-block-todo-from-children-or-siblings-or-
>> parent org-depend-block-todo)
>> org-completion-use-ido t
>> org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
>> org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t
>> org-agenda-start-with-log-mode t
>> org-clock-out-switch-to-state '(lambda (prev-state) (if (member
>> prev-
>> state org-done-keywords) "DONE" "STARTED"))
>> org-deadline-warning-days 1
>> org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t
>> org-trigger-hook '(org-depend-trigger-todo)
>> org-export-preprocess-hook '(org-export-blocks-preprocess)
>> org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe)
>> org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
>> org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
>> org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO(t)" "STARTED(s)" "WAITING(w@/!)"
>> "|" "DONE(d)" "OBSOLETE(o)"))
>> org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
>> org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-
>> drawers org-cycle-show-empty-lines
>>                  org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
>> org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks 'invisible
>> org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options t
>> org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
>>                   [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-
>> block-all append local] 5]
>>                 )
>> org-agenda-ndays 1
>> org-refile-targets '((nil :maxlevel . 3))
>> org-emphasis-regexp-components '(" 	('\"{" "- 	.,:!?;'\")}" "
>> .\n,
>> \"'" "." 1)
>> org-confirm-elisp-link-function nil
>> org-agenda-mode-hook '((lambda nil (hl-line-mode 1)))
>> org-enforce-todo-dependencies t
>> org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done t
>> org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
>> org-from-is-user-regexp "\\<Andrew Hyatt\\>"
>> org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "CLOCK" "LOGBOOK" "NOTES")
>> )
>>
>>
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