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Fwd: 29.0.50; org-priority 'SPC to remove' doesn't work

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From: bruce robertson <brucer42 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Fwd: 29.0.50; org-priority 'SPC to remove' doesn't work
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 15:52:00 -0800

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whoops

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From: bruce robertson <brucer42 <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 2:18 PM
Subject: 29.0.50; org-priority 'SPC to remove' doesn't work
To: <bug-gnus-emacs <at> gnu.org>


I'm sending this again because I'm not confident my emacs/macos email iface
is good.
1. in init.el:
(custom-set-variables
 '(org-priority-default 32)
 '(org-priority-highest 0)
 '(org-priority-lowest 31)
)
2. position to line in .org file:
** TODO [#0] test line

3. from M-x view-lossage:
 C-c ,         ;; org-priority

4. mini-buffer displays:
"Priority 0-31, SPC to remove: "

5. further in view-lossage:
SPC           ;; self-insert-command
 <return>      ;; exit-minibuffer

4. from *Messages* (and mini-buffer):
Priority of current item set to 0

5. PROBLEM:
I wanted to remove priority.

6. WORK-AROUND:
set priority to 32. Then priority disappears. Perhaps this is because 32
is space code or because I've set org-priority-default to 32.
( I spent a medium amount of time to find this behavior. )

7. SUGGESTION:
rewrite org-priority to have a clear distinction between numbers and
characters and whatever will be used to remove the priority.
( I gave a look at this but my emacs-fu is too weak. Or my time-fu is
too small. )

Thank you, thank you, thank you for emacs and org-mode and ...

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Message #8 received at 52341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>
To: bruce robertson <brucer42 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>, 52341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52341: Fwd: 29.0.50; org-priority 'SPC to remove' doesn't work
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:48:46 -0500

bruce robertson writes:

> 1. in init.el:
> (custom-set-variables
>  '(org-priority-default 32)
>  '(org-priority-highest 0)
>  '(org-priority-lowest 31)
> )
> 2. position to line in .org file:
> ** TODO [#0] test line
>
> 3. from M-x view-lossage:
>  C-c ,         ;; org-priority
>
> 4. mini-buffer displays:
> "Priority 0-31, SPC to remove: "
>
> 5. further in view-lossage:
> SPC           ;; self-insert-command
>  <return>      ;; exit-minibuffer
>
> 4. from *Messages* (and mini-buffer):
> Priority of current item set to 0
>
> 5. PROBLEM:
> I wanted to remove priority.
>
> 6. WORK-AROUND:
> set priority to 32. Then priority disappears. Perhaps this is because 32
> is space code or because I've set org-priority-default to 32.
> ( I spent a medium amount of time to find this behavior. )
>
> 7. SUGGESTION:
> rewrite org-priority to have a clear distinction between numbers and
> characters and whatever will be used to remove the priority.
> ( I gave a look at this but my emacs-fu is too weak. Or my time-fu is
> too small. )

Right, this stems from org-priority feeding " " to string-to-number and
ending up with 0 instead of the ?\s (32) that's used downstream to
signal "remove".  The problem goes back to when support for numeric
priorities was added in Org v9.4's 4f98694bf (Allow numeric values for
priorities, 2020-01-30).

I suppose one solution would be to check for " " and translate that to
the ?\s so that the remove is triggered.  I'll plan to apply the change
below to Org's bugfix branch in a day or two unless the author of the
above commit (+cc) or someone else has another suggestion.

diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 1a1375461..998da0656 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -11323,13 +11323,14 @@ (defun org-priority (&optional action show)
 	    (setq
 	     new
 	     (if nump
-                 (let ((msg (format "Priority %s-%s, SPC to remove: "
-				    (number-to-string org-priority-highest)
-				    (number-to-string org-priority-lowest))))
-                   (if (< 9 org-priority-lowest)
-		       (string-to-number (read-string msg))
-                     (message msg)
-                     (string-to-number (char-to-string (read-char-exclusive)))))
+                 (let* ((msg (format "Priority %s-%s, SPC to remove: "
+                                     (number-to-string org-priority-highest)
+                                     (number-to-string org-priority-lowest)))
+                        (s (if (< 9 org-priority-lowest)
+                               (read-string msg)
+                             (message msg)
+                             (char-to-string (read-char-exclusive)))))
+                   (if (equal s " ") ?\s (string-to-number s)))
 	       (progn (message "Priority %c-%c, SPC to remove: "
 			       org-priority-highest org-priority-lowest)
 		      (save-match-data

Message #11 received at 52341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>, 52341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 bruce robertson <brucer42 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#52341: Fwd: 29.0.50; org-priority 'SPC to remove' doesn't work
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:41:55 +0100

>>>>> On Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:48:46 -0500, Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com> said:
    Kyle> Right, this stems from org-priority feeding " " to string-to-number and
    Kyle> ending up with 0 instead of the ?\s (32) that's used downstream to
    Kyle> signal "remove".  The problem goes back to when support for numeric
    Kyle> priorities was added in Org v9.4's 4f98694bf (Allow numeric values for
    Kyle> priorities, 2020-01-30).

    Kyle> I suppose one solution would be to check for " " and translate that to
    Kyle> the ?\s so that the remove is triggered.  I'll plan to apply the change
    Kyle> below to Org's bugfix branch in a day or two unless the author of the
    Kyle> above commit (+cc) or someone else has another suggestion.

That fixes part of the issue, but still when using numeric priorities,
removal will be 'SPC RET' rather than 'SPC'.

Robert
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Message #14 received at 52341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>, 52341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 bruce robertson <brucer42 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#52341: Fwd: 29.0.50; org-priority 'SPC to remove' doesn't work
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 20:58:52 -0500

Robert Pluim writes:

>>>>>> On Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:48:46 -0500, Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com> said:
>     Kyle> Right, this stems from org-priority feeding " " to string-to-number and
>     Kyle> ending up with 0 instead of the ?\s (32) that's used downstream to
>     Kyle> signal "remove".  The problem goes back to when support for numeric
>     Kyle> priorities was added in Org v9.4's 4f98694bf (Allow numeric values for
>     Kyle> priorities, 2020-01-30).
>
>     Kyle> I suppose one solution would be to check for " " and translate that to
>     Kyle> the ?\s so that the remove is triggered.  I'll plan to apply the change
>     Kyle> below to Org's bugfix branch in a day or two unless the author of the
>     Kyle> above commit (+cc) or someone else has another suggestion.
>
> That fixes part of the issue, but still when using numeric priorities,
> removal will be 'SPC RET' rather than 'SPC'.

If someone 1) uses numeric priorities and 2) has org-priority-lowest
above 9, read-string is used to prompt with "Priority M-N, SPC to
remove: ".  They need to use 'SPC RET' just as they need to use, say, '3
RET'.  That is, it's consistent with the prompt behavior for entering
the actual priorities.

Perhaps that should change in some way (though I'm not planning on
working on it myself), but in my view that behavior shouldn't be
conflated with SPC not being translated to "remove the priority".

Message #19 received at 52341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>
To: bruce robertson <brucer42 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>, 52341 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52341: Fwd: 29.0.50; org-priority 'SPC to remove' doesn't work
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 22:48:55 -0500

close 52341
quit

Kyle Meyer writes:

> I suppose one solution would be to check for " " and translate that to
> the ?\s so that the remove is triggered.  I'll plan to apply the change
> below to Org's bugfix branch in a day or two unless the author of the
> above commit (+cc) or someone else has another suggestion.

Applied to the Org repo (4aca51fcb).

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