[Orgmode] Re: Bug: Resilience to leaving Emacs w/o clocking out [7.02trans]

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Dave and Carsten,

Dave Abrahams wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Carsten Dominik
>> On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:56 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
>>>> As a result, when I fired up emacs, it would always tell me there was a
>>>> dangling clock, but I couldn't clock out, even by `j M-x org-clock-out'.
>>>> Eventually I figured out to use "J" and it got cleaned up, but I'm still
>>>> a bit baffled about how I ended up in this condition.
>>>
>>> and he replied:
>>>
>>>> This happens for me if I exit Emacs without clocking out first.
>>>
>>> Seems like a bug.
>>
>> No, this is meant to work like this.  Next time you start up Emacs, you get
>> a chance to fix this clock.  What would you like to happen? That you always
>> clock out when you exit Emacs?
>
> No, I expected that I'd at least be *able* to clock out with `M-x
> org-clock-out' after I start Emacs back up.

The only thing that could make sense is something that was (more or less?)
standard with Planner: overriding =kill-emacs= (=C-c C-x=) in order to ask you
if you want to clock out before leaving Emacs, if you still have a running
clock.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban