From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: wrong-type-argument when changing TODO state [7.7]
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:59:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23342.1314604746@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> of "Mon\, 29 Aug 2011 09\:41\:29 +0200." <CAKvLAoh3ufj_kGvCHHGFQUVabp3EfjqKt+q=wWGekX3EsuB1Wg@mail.gmail.com>
Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 19:09, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> > Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I am trying to switch between TODO and DONE states with Shift-Right
> >> Arrow and I get a (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) error.
> >>
> >> Please find attached the backtrace.
> >>
> >>
> >> Emacs : GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
> >> of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian
> >> Package: Org-mode version 7.7
> >>
> >
> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> >> looking-at(nil)
> >> (save-excursion (beginning-of-line 1) (looking-at org-todo-line-regexp))
> >> (and (outline-on-heading-p) (not (bolp)) (save-excursion (beginning-of-line 1) (looking-at org-todo-line-regexp)) (< (point) (+ 2 ...)))
> >> (if (and (outline-on-heading-p) (not ...) (save-excursion ... ...) (< ... ...)) (progn (goto-char ...) (and ... ...)))
> >> (let* ...)
> >> (catch (quote exit) ...)
> >> (save-excursion (catch (quote exit)...)
> >> (let ...)
> >> org-todo(right)
> >> call-interactively(org-todo)
> >> (let ((current-prefix-arg arg)) (call-interactively command))
> >> org-call-with-arg(org-todo right)
> >> (let ...)
> >> (cond ...)
> >> org-shiftright(nil)
> >> call-interactively(org-shiftright nil nil)
> >
> > The problem is that org-todo-line-regexp is nil. This variable is
> > made buffer-local and initialized when the buffer's mode is set
> > to org-mode.
> >
> > Are you sure that your buffer's major mode is org-mode?
> >
> > Nick
> >
>
> Yeah, the mode shows as org-mode.
What happens if while visiting the buffer, you say
C-h v org-todo-line-regexp RET
Is the value reported nil?
> But now I get another weird one.
> Everytime I open an org file, I see the following message in the
> minibuffer:
>
> File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument keymap nil)
>
That will require another backtrace but...
> I'm lost ...
When you get to the point of feeling lost, it's time to take a step
back. Make yourself a minimal.emacs that contains just the basics to
get org-mode loaded - assuming you get your org sources from git, then
you need something like this (with pathnames changed appropriately):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp -*-
;;; constant part
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp"))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
(require 'org-install)
(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
(global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Then start up an emacs without any of your customizations, load the minimal.emacs
file and visit an org file and try what you tried before:
emacs -q -l /path/to/minimal.emacs /path/to/somefile.org
and try changing a TODO as before. Does that work? If not, try -Q
instead of -q: does *that* work?
Assuming one of these works, then you have localized the problem to
some customization (yours or the systems) and then there are various
ways to proceed.
Nick
>
> S.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-29 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-28 11:24 Bug: wrong-type-argument when changing TODO state [7.7] Stelian Iancu
2011-08-28 17:09 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-29 7:41 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 7:59 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-08-29 13:32 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 21:42 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 21:59 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 22:37 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-29 23:02 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-30 17:21 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-31 11:03 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-30 7:47 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 22:25 ` Nick Dokos
[not found] ` <stelian.iancu@gmail.com>
2011-11-24 8:03 ` Org from ELPA question Stelian Iancu
2011-11-24 8:17 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-24 8:38 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-11-24 12:23 ` Jambunathan K
2011-11-24 12:55 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-11-24 20:44 ` Achim Gratz
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