Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf-genee64ty+gs+fvcfc7...@public.gmane.org>
writes:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> Bastien wrote:
>>>> I've a really weird exception occurring: change state from TODO to DONE is
>>>> blocked... while I'm on a leaf of the Org tree!?
>>>>
>>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error #("TODO state change from TODO to
>>>> DONE blocked" 23 27 (face org-todo) 31 35 (face org-done)))
<snip>
> I could see in the description of that var that it could block state change if
> tasks were ordered and a previous one not done. But I never use the ordered
> property.
>
> ... Well, never, but well in that parent tree. Was it for test purpose? Did I
> have something else in mind? I dunno anymore, but that property was
> definitely the culprit.
>
> Doing so, I'm wondering:
>
> - if the output message could be updated to make it clear what the reason is,
> or can be?
>
> - why it allowed me to update the tasks state when I narrowed the buffer to
> that task only? Does that mean that *narrowing* somehow *drops the inherited
> properties*?
If narrowing the buffer allows the state change when the parent (outside
the narrowed region) has the ORDERED property - I think that's a bug
that needs to be fixed.
The behaviour shouldn't change if you narrow the buffer.
-Bernt
