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Re: [Orgmode] [PATCH] Avoid losing persisted clock data when exiting ema


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] [PATCH] Avoid losing persisted clock data when exiting emac without loading org-mode
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:10:58 +0100

Hi Kai,

after giving it more thought, what I checked in is actually
a combination of the two patches you sent.

Thanks you for finding and fixing this issue.

- Carsten

On Oct 24, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Kai Tetzlaff wrote:

Carsten Dominik wrote:
Hi Kai,


On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Kai Tetzlaff wrote:

Hi,

i noticed that when using the org-mode clock persistence, the stored
clock data gets deleted when i start emacs and exit again without
turning on org-mode in between.

When looking at org-clock-persistence-insinuate it looks like org- clock load will only run after org-mode gets started whereas org-clock- save
will always be called when exiting emacs:

(defun org-clock-persistence-insinuate ()
"Set up hooks for clock persistence"
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-clock-load)
(add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook 'org-clock-save))

Not running org-mode-hook (i.e. not starting org-mode) thus does not
load clock data but org-clock-save overwrites any prviously saved data
when exiting emacs.

An easy fix for that would be to just add org-clock-load to e.g.
emacs-startup-hook. But this will only work if the code in
org-clock-load does not depend on any org-mode initialization code (or
would require loading org-mode).

So org-clock-save should probably check if org-clock-load has been
running during the current emacs session (or if clock persistence was just enabled) and only then save clock data when exiting emacs. I tried
to add this to the code in org-clock-save:

diff --git a/lisp/org-clock.el b/lisp/org-clock.el
index c7ebbf8..c0fe4e6 100644
--- a/lisp/org-clock.el
+++ b/lisp/org-clock.el
@@ -1803,7 +1803,8 @@ This function is made for clock tables."
 "Persist various clock-related data to disk.
The details of what will be saved are regulated by the variable
`org-clock-persist'."
-  (when org-clock-persist
+  (when (and org-clock-persist
+             (or org-clock-loaded (not (file-exists-p
org-clock-persist-file))))
   (let (b)
     (with-current-buffer (find-file (expand-file-name
org-clock-persist-file))
   (progn


/Kai


I see you point, but I am not convinced that you fix is the right one. What one really wants to do is save the clock and history if and only if the clock has been used in the current session. So I guess it is better to create a special variable org-clock-used-in-this-session which then will be set to t each time clock-in starts a clock somewhere. I believe
this would be a better insurance policy.

Would you like to try your hand at a patch in this spirit?

Ok, i've attached a new path which uses the suggested approach. I wasn't
exactly sure about where to set org-clock-used-in-this-session to t.
It's now done right at the end of org-clock-in, just before running
hooks in org-clock-in-hook.

I've done a couple of (simple) tests and it works fine for me.

/Kai

- Carsten

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diff --git a/lisp/org-clock.el b/lisp/org-clock.el
index b1041e2..467ffc4 100644
--- a/lisp/org-clock.el
+++ b/lisp/org-clock.el
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ to add an effort property.")
(defvar org-clock-heading "")
(defvar org-clock-heading-for-remember "")
(defvar org-clock-start-time "")
+(defvar org-clock-used-in-this-session nil)

(defvar org-clock-left-over-time nil
"If non-nil, user cancelled a clock; this is when leftover time started.") @@ -953,6 +954,7 @@ the clocking selection, associated with the letter `d'."
            (setq org-clock-idle-timer
                  (run-with-timer 60 60 'org-resolve-clocks-if-idle))
            (message "Clock starts at %s - %s" ts msg-extra)
+            (setq org-clock-used-in-this-session t)
            (run-hooks 'org-clock-in-hook)))))))

(defun org-clock-mark-default-task ()
@@ -1824,7 +1826,7 @@ This function is made for clock tables."
  "Persist various clock-related data to disk.
The details of what will be saved are regulated by the variable
`org-clock-persist'."
-  (when org-clock-persist
+  (when (and org-clock-persist org-clock-used-in-this-session)
    (let (b)
(with-current-buffer (find-file (expand-file-name org-clock- persist-file))
        (progn

- Carsten







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