Thanks for the bug report, I can confirm this is happening.
I encountered a similar bug where org-agenda-prepare-buffers was causing
the same issue when the file hadn't been saved to disk, and I agree that
the solution looks good. I've formatted this into a patch and attached
it. Might be worth considering too if this is happening anywhere else
too, since this is the second time it has come up.
On 5/11/21 6:07 AM, m...@kisaragi-hiu.com wrote:
* Reproduction
1. emacs -Q
2. C-x C-f /tmp/new.org RET
3. Type anything
4. Type C-u C-c # (C-u org-update-statistics-cookies) to try to update all
statistics cookies in the buffer
5. Notice the "Non-existent agenda file /tmp/new.org." error.
This doesn't happen if the file already exists.
I first saw this reported in this reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/n9g1yf/is_this_a_bug_with_orgupdatestatisticcookies/
(u/flyin1501 is me)
* Expectation
All statistics cookies in the buffer are updated no matter if the buffer's
associated file is already created or not.
* Why this is happening
- `org-update-statistics-cookies` (C-c #) uses `org-map-entries` to update all
cookies.
- `org-map-entries` uses `org-agenda-prepare-buffers` to prepare the file when
SCOPE is nil. Excerpt:
(if (not scope)
(progn
(org-agenda-prepare-buffers
(and buffer-file-name (list buffer-file-name)))
(setq res
(org-scan-tags
func matcher org--matcher-tags-todo-only start-level)))
- This function complains if the file does not exist, causing the error.
* Solution (IMO)
`org-map-entries` is quite complex because of its matching and scoping
features; `org-update-statistics-cookies` only updates the current buffer and
should use `org-map-region` instead. IMO it should go from
(if all
(progn
(org-update-checkbox-count 'all)
(org-map-entries 'org-update-parent-todo-statistics))
to:
(if all
(progn
(org-update-checkbox-count 'all)
(org-map-region 'org-update-parent-todo-statistics (point-min)
(point-max)))
>From 2081a1d2bd628dd8e5a1ad9fc4ffd58a4f951972 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Savage <n...@nicksavage.ca>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 06:59:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] lisp/org.el: Fix org-update-statistics-cookies error
* lisp/org.el (org-update-statistics-cookies): Replace
usage of `org-map-entries' with `org-map-region' to prevent bug where
an error was thrown if the current buffer had not yet been saved to disk.
Formatted from a patch proposal by m...@kisaragi-hiu.com
Reported-by: m...@kisaragi-hiu.com
---
lisp/org.el | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 6dbf33abc..fc5197642 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -9989,7 +9989,7 @@ all statistics cookies in the buffer."
(if all
(progn
(org-update-checkbox-count 'all)
- (org-map-entries 'org-update-parent-todo-statistics))
+ (org-map-region 'org-update-parent-todo-statistics (point-min) (point-max)))
(if (not (org-at-heading-p))
(org-update-checkbox-count)
(let ((pos (point-marker))
--
2.20.1
