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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: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:09:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27177.1314551389@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> of "Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:24:06 EDT." <4E5A2556.50106@gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-28 17:17 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 [this message]
2011-08-29  7:41   ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29  7:59     ` Nick Dokos
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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