Hi Michael, Thanks for this patch. Before it is applied, though, I would like to understand why it is necessary. Vikas said that he could not reproduce the problem you originally reported. (Here is a web archived version of Vikas’s message, in case you did not see it at first: <http://mid.gmane.org/b874ada0-1879-4021-b873-035ac85c4...@agrarianresearch.org>)
I cannot reproduce the problem either, using a very recent git version of org. I think we need some more information in order to understand why you are experiencing this misbehavior. Can you tell us what version of org you have installed, i.e. the output of M-x org-version? Thanks, -- Aaron Ecay