On 6/25/10 Jun 25 -9:12 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Robert Goldman wrote: > >> On 6/25/10 Jun 25 -2:03 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: >>> Hi Robert, >>> >>> On Jun 18, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Robert Goldman wrote: >>> >>>> I have found what I believe to be a bug in handling ordered subtasks. >>>> Here is the behavior: >>>> >>>> I have a top level set of tasks that is ordered. >>>> >>>> One of the outline items below the top level set is a grab bag of tasks >>>> that will be performed in parallel. So this task is NOT ordered >>>> (ORDERED: nil). >>>> >>>> The problem is that the blocking behavior from ordered tasks seems >>>> to be >>>> inherited from the top level task list into the second level of the >>>> outline, even though the ORDERED property at the second level is >>>> explicitly overridden. >>>> >>>> I am attaching an org file that displays this issue. To see the >>>> problem, put your cursor on the "Bar" task and attempt to change its >>>> status to DONE. >>> >>> The problem here is that the value of the ORDERED property is the string >>> "nil", and that is of course not nil! >>> >>> I have introduced a special case to have "nil" interpreted as nil here, >>> because your use case makes a lot of sense. >> >> Oh, dear. That makes perfect sense, now that I think of it. >> >> Question: what is the proper way to get a NIL into a property? Are we >> to use () instead of "nil"? Or are property values always interpreted >> as strings? >> >> Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question! > > Not a stupid question at all. > > There is no way, currently. Property values are string - the only way > to make > org-entry-get return nil is to not have the property defined at all.
OK, and there's no problem with this /except/ in cases where one wishes to override inheritance, right? I.e., you never need to specify nil at the top level; it's only when you need to cancel a value that you are inheriting.... best, r _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
