Dmitrii Korobeinikov <dim12...@gmail.com> writes: > When you run org-clock-in and then restart emacs, clocking in again > will show a prompt asking what to do w/ the unfinished entry. "i" > means "ignore this question; the same as keeping all the idle time". > However, a new entry is created if this is chosen without doing > anything about unfinished one. Keeping all the idle time w/ "k" > updates the unfinished entry before starting a new one. "i" doesn't do > that, so the description seems a bit misleading.
That seems confusing to me as well (at least being the not-advanced clocker that I am). I suspect the confusion comes from the different perspective from which it's written. You're talking about restarting Emacs and clocking in again; the description is, I think, written assuming the context of the prompt being triggered due to idle time. In that scenario, hitting i/q or 'k => all' have the same effect; a new entry is not created. This resolving on clock-in vs resolving when idle discrepancy shows in at least one other part of the description: the final sentence says that the uppercase variants leads to a clocked out state, but that's not true when org-clock-resolve is triggered from an org-clock-in call. So, while I think things could be improved here (contributions welcome), those changes should keep both contexts in mind.
