Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-show-effort ideas

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Adam,

On Nov 4, 2009, at 1:26 AM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Benjamin Andresen (address@hidden) wrote:
> > Adam Spiers <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > I definitely did try it, and I just did another 'git pull' and tried
> > > again, and I still don't see it, so I guess we're talking about
> > > different things ;-)
> > >
> > > To clarify, I'm referring to showing effort via a single keystroke
> > > when on a todo line in the *Org Agenda* buffer.  Currently, when I  
> > > hit
> > > "e" on a todo which has an existing "Effort" property value set, my
> > > minibuffer prompt shows "Value: ".  The same applies with C-c C-x  
> > > e in
> > > a normal .org file buffer.
> >
> > When I press 'e' in an agenda on an item that has the Effort property
> > value set, I get a minibuffer prompt that shows "Value [5]: " when  
> > the
> > Effort value is 5.
> >
> > This is with a git version from Sunday morning.
> >
> > Check the source of the function org-set-effort, it will show you  
> > that
> > it concats "[" cur "]", where cur is the current Effort prop value.
>
> Thanks for the pointer - it seems that the "[" cur "]" is only
> included when
>
>  (org-property-get-allowed-values nil prop 'table)
>
> is nil - and in my case I have a global Effort_ALL property set which
> means that this is never the case.  So I think this is a bug which can
> be trivially fixed by assigning the prompt string in the let* variable
> list, and then using it in both invocations of org-completing-read.

You are right, and it is fixed now.

- Carsten