Org-modern blocks subtree movement/refiling

[japhir]

Since a while I get some issues with org-modern!

Here are the steps to recreate what I did: use alphapapa's with-emacs

with-emacs.sh -i org-modern

create a new org file, e.g. ~/Downloads/test-org-modern.org, write:

* test
** heading
*** inheritance
* new

M-x org-modern-mode

This gives me the following warning:

Warning (comp): org-modern.el:807:27: Warning: the function ‘pos-bol’ is not known to be defined. Disable showing Disable logging

Now to get the real issues:

1. Put cursor on heading test and use M-S-left arrow or right arrow to try to move an org-heading down a level, including its children
   -> Only the current heading moves.
2. Navigate cursor to heading new, C-c C-w to refile it, type test.
   -> The heading gets copied to test, but remains its own heading as well

Turn off org-modern-mode and try again to get the desired behaviour.

org-modern.el has this in it:

;; Created: 2022
;; Version: 0.9
;; Package-Version: 20230422.634
;; Package-Commit: e0a1a00490acc3bbbf199e433c9ef60e03f9d416

[minad]

The pos-bol error is caused since you miss the Compat dependency. Ensure that you update all packages. Maybe you use Straight? Straight doesn't respect version contraints, see radian-software/straight.el#1083. I cannot reproduce the demote issue in my setup, but that's expected since the demote problem is most likely caused by the missing pos-bol function.

[japhir]

Hey thanks for getting back to me.

I do have compat installed however! I've used use-package with :ensure t to install org-modern, which should take care of dependencies. I had also just done a M-x list-packages (... wait for refresh) U y.

Status: Installed in ‘compat-29.1.4.1/’.
Version: 29.1.4.1

In my list of packages it says it's been installed as a dependency.

Required by: with-editor-20230212.2214, transient-20230508.1924, org-modern-20230422.634, moody-20230212.2015, magit-section-20230428.1518, magit-20230502.1321, keycast-20230212.2016, git-commit-20230313.1724

But to prevent it being an issue with my own setup, I included the MWE that uses with-emacs.sh to show that it also occurs when I only install org-modern (and its dependencies) (which just uses (package-install X)).

Cheers

[minad]

I don't know what the issue is, but I cannot reproduce it with emacs -Q and org-modern and compat. Maybe you use a very outdated commit of Emacs 29?

[japhir]

I'm on Emacs 29.0.50, which I've built quite a while ago because compilation takes so long. This might be the issue?

[japhir]

You were right, updating to Emacs 30.0.50 has resolved this issue! Thanks :)

[minad]

Please make sure that you update Emacs more regularly if you use the master branch to prevent such issues in the future. The master branch cannot be considered stable since it is early in its life cycle. Otherwise I recommend that you use Emacs 29 from the emacs-29 branch which is stable. Personally I compile Emacs from the emacs-29 branch myself until Emacs 30 stabilizes a bit more.