[O] Bug: Recurring TODO spuriously blocked [7.7]

[François Pinard]

Hi, people.

Whenever a TODO is scheduled with a recurrence (with .+ or ++), forcing
the state to DONE is a mere way to trigger Org into setting the state to
TODO again, yet with the scheduled date updated for the next repetition.
Setting to DONE merely means that this repetition is done, which is not
the same as being forever DONE.  In fact, setting a repeated schedule to
DONE is really a way of updating the schedule; the intent relies on the
mechanics by which the DONE state is just a transient way to TODO again.

Now, within ~/.emacs, I have org-enforce-todo-dependencies set to t, for
good purposes.  But then, I get spurious:

   byte-code: TODO state change from TODO to DONE blocked

trying to schedule the next repetition.  todo-dependencies should likely
never be enforced for repeated entries, even if enforced otherwise, as
enforcing for repetitions with the current Org mechanics has no meaning,
at least as I undestand Org so far.

François



P.S. This is my first report to Org mode people.  To sent id, I tried
the "Org -> Send Bug Report" menu entry.  This action took quite a long
time, mostly writing dots after "Formatting bug report buffer", and
produced a very long "current state" section, containing what might be
byte code, and very long lines which did not seem meaningful, and which
I edited out so this submission stays reasonable.  As edited below, the
report is now of reasonable length, and hopefully, reasonable contents.

The bug report took too much time to generate, and too much time to
hand-edit afterwards, to the point of discouragement.  I will likely
avoid that menu in next communications.  In my opinion, to be usable,
the generation should be corrected to avoid byte-code, and other noise.
It might also solve the speed problem.




Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
 of 2011-04-04 on rothera, modified by Debian
Package: Org-mode version 7.7

current state:
==============
(setq
 org-mouse-features '(context-menu move-tree yank-link activate-stars
                      activate-bullets activate-checkboxes)
 org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook '(org-beamer-after-initial-vars)
 org-todo-keyword-faces '(("TODO" :foreground "orange" :weight bold)
                          ("NEXT" . org-todo) ("DONE" . org-done)
                          ("WAIT" :foreground "dark red" :weight bold)
                          ("ISSUE" . org-todo)
                          ("FORWARDED" :foreground "dark red" :weight
                           bold)
                          ("REJECTED" :foreground "black" :weight bold)
                          ("SOLVED" . org-done)
                          ("Reclasser" :foreground "orange" :weight bold))
 org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook
                          org-babel-speed-command-hook)
 org-agenda-files '("~/fp/notes/epsilon.org" "~/fp/notes/notes.org")
 org-blocker-hook '(org-block-todo-from-checkboxes
                    org-block-todo-from-children-or-siblings-or-parent)
 org-clock-in-hook '(fp-org-clock-in-routine)
 org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
 org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
 org-special-ctrl-k t
 org-export-latex-format-toc-function 'org-export-latex-format-toc-default
 org-stuck-projects '("+projet/-DONE" ("TODO" "NEXT") nil "")
 org-clock-in-resume t
 org-agenda-clock-consistency-checks '(:max-gap "0:05" :gap-ok-around
                                       ("4:00" "13:30" "19:30")
                                       :max-duration "10:00"
                                       :min-duration 2 :default-face
                                       ((:background "DarkRed")
                                        (:foreground "white"))
                                       :gap-face
                                       ((:background "light blue")
                                        (:foreground "white"))
                                       :no-end-time-face
                                       ((:background "salmon")
                                        (:foreground "white"))
                                       )
 org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe
                      org-src-native-tab-command-maybe
                      org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe)
 org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer
                     org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
 org-confirm-shell-link-function nil
 org-export-first-hook '(org-beamer-initialize-open-trackers)
 org-use-tag-inheritance nil
 org-clock-persist t
 org-startup-indented t
 org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO(t)" "NEXT(n)" "|" "DONE(d)"
                      "WAIT(w@)")
                     (sequence "ISSUE(i)" "FORWARDED(f@)" "|"
                      "REJECTED(r@)" "SOLVED(s@)")
                     (sequence "Reclasser" "|"))
 org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
 org-default-notes-file "~/fp/notes/notes.org"
 org-directory "~/fp/notes"
 org-blank-before-new-entry nil
 org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer)
 org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers
                  org-cycle-show-empty-lines
                  org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
 org-export-preprocess-before-normalizing-links-hook 
'(org-remove-file-link-modifiers)
 org-mode-hook '((lambda nil
                  (add-hook (quote before-save-hook)
                   (quote fp-org-before-save))
                  (imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu") (visual-line-mode t)
                  (setq compile-command
                   (concat "~/etc/bin/orgmode-tool >/dev/null"
                    "; ~/etc/bin/orgmode-tool -s")
                   fill-paragraph-function (quote fp-org-fill-paragraph))
                  )
 org-agenda-ndays 1
 org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point
                          org-babel-execute-safely-maybe)
 org-confirm-elisp-link-function nil
 org-log-into-drawer t
 org-export-interblocks '((lob org-babel-exp-lob-one-liners)
                         (src org-babel-exp-inline-src-blocks))
 org-clock-out-hook '(fp-org-clock-out-routine
                      org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer)
 org-enforce-todo-dependencies t
 org-link-mailto-program '(compose-mail "%a" "%s")
 org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
 org-from-is-user-regexp "\\<François Pinard\\>"
 org-yank-adjusted-subtrees t
 org-export-preprocess-before-selecting-backend-code-hook 
'(org-beamer-select-beamer-code)
 org-tags-column -70
 org-export-latex-final-hook '(org-beamer-amend-header org-beamer-fix-toc
                               org-beamer-auto-fragile-frames
                               org-beamer-place-default-actions-for-lists)
 org-enforce-todo-checkbox-dependencies t
 org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe)
 org-clock-idle-time 10
 org-export-blocks '((src org-babel-exp-src-block nil)
                     (comment org-export-blocks-format-comment t)
                     (ditaa org-export-blocks-format-ditaa nil)
                     (dot org-export-blocks-format-dot nil))
 )