Re: [O] [BUG] org-clock-in menu scrolls off the top of the window

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Bernt, Bastien,

Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Another change I've noticed in master is the display of the clocking
> task menu when doing
>
> C-u M-x org-clock-in
>
> I've reduced my clocking menu items a bit due to screen size changes and
> not being able to see the items that scroll off the top of the screen
> (normally the most recent items are the ones I'm looking for but on
> small screens the menu scrolls up and I can't see the recent items).
>
> My current setting is (setq org-clock-history-length 23)
>
> My menu for clock-in tasks currently runs 1-9,A-N and starts with the
> "Current Clocking Task" on line 1.  I have a widescreen monitor in
> windows and the bottom half of the menu is blank when the screen splits
> horizontally to display the clock in menu -- it seems to be centered
> near the last item in the list but this scrolls the default and
> interrupted clocking task entries off the top of the screen.
>
> There is no way to scroll this menu that I am aware of.
>
> The buffer *Clock Task Select* has
>
> ,----
> | Default Task
> | [d] Organize        Organization
> | The task interrupted by starting the last one
> | [i] Organize        Organization
> | Current Clocking Task
> | [c] SomeProject     TODO SomeTask
> | Recent Tasks
> | [1] SomeProject     TODO SomeTask
> | [2] Organize        Organization
> | [3] refile          TODO foo
> | ...
> | [N] refile          SomeOtherRefileTask
> `----
>
> but it scrolls with C-u M-x org-clock-in so it looks like this
>
> ,----
> | Current Clocking Task
> | [c] SomeProject     TODO SomeTask
> | Recent Tasks
> | [1] SomeProject     TODO SomeTask
> | [2] Organize        Organization
> | [3] refile          TODO foo
> | ...
> | [N] refile          SomeOtherRefileTask
> | ... <lots of blank lines>
> `----

As your data is not that true, I can't tell from what you show, but another
thing that I've seen (in my config) is that many tasks are duplicated, hence
the list is much longer that needed.

Do you see that as well in your case?

For example, it seems to me that (in the second screen) item 1 is redundant
with item c. In the first screen, items d, i and 2 seem redundant, while items
c and 1 seem also redundant.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban