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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: bug report: timeline agenda in an indirect buffer
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:17:17 -0400
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Cc: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, nicholas.dokos@hp.com

Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu> =
wrote:
>=20
>     Right now making a timeline agenda of an indirect buffer causes a cra=
sh.
>     I think it's because buffer-file-name is null for such buffers,
>     so in the call
>     (org-prepare-agenda (concat "Timeline "
>     =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=
 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0(file-name-nondirectory buffer-fi=
le-name)))
>     the file-name-nondirectory call fails.
>=20
> I am trying to understand what do you mean by indirect buffer in this con=
text. Can you please explain the steps to reproduce this?
>=20

See Section 27.11, "Indirect Buffers", of the Elisp manual.
If you are reading this in emacs, you can just evaluate the
following:

   (info "(elisp) Indirect Buffers")

HTH,
Nick