[emacs-wiki-discuss] Cannot open output file -- Paren-parsing bug in planner-multi

[Patricia J. Hawkins]

Someone mentioned an issue with planner multi -- that they were
getting "cannot open output file ~/Plan:".

Maybe someone's already tracked this down, but if not -- I just got
this too, and it was caused by creating a task that contained an open
paren but no closing paren -- which apparently is then parsed as being
part of the planner-multi plan page links.

I was in planner-multi-mode, used
planner-create-task-from-buffer and then entered the planner page
name rather than taking the default.  So with the following task
description:

Buy pants (khakis? Black jeans?

in GtdOutOfHouse I got this task description:

#B   _ Buy pants (khakis? Black jeans? (GtdOutOfHouse [[GtdAllByProject][p]])

and this one in GtdAllByProject:
#B   _ Buy pants {{Tasks:361}} (khakis? Black jeans? (GtdOutOfHouse 
[[GtdAllByProject][p]])

After this, attempts to operate on this task created peculiar results,
such as parenthesis scan errors, complaints about no such file or
directory: 
"Opening output file: no such file or directory, c:/pjh/Plans/jeans?"

and buffers (and as you can see, some corresponding files) such as the
below:

 MR Buffer           Size  Mode         File
 -- ------           ----  ----         ----
.*  *mail*            943  Message      ~/News/drafts/drafts/903
    GtdOutOfHouse    1217  Planner      ~/Plans/GtdOutOfHouse
    GtdAllByProject  19262 Planner      ~/Plans/GtdAllByProject
    (GtdOutOfHouse     94  Planner      ~/Plans/(GtdOutOfHouse
 *  jeans?             94  Planner      ~/Plans/jeans?
 *  Black              94  Planner      ~/Plans/Black
 *  khakis?            94  Planner      ~/Plans/khakis?

:) Entertaining, but sooo wrong! 

-- 
Patricia J. Hawkins
Hawkins Internet Applications
www.hawkinsia.com