From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Wood Subject: Re: [OT]: Search for missing :END: Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:12:56 -0800 Message-ID: <51350E58.1000204@berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCcgx-0006WH-2i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:13:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCcgw-0003cc-2G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:13:03 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]:50497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCcgv-0003cX-S4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:13:01 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f47.google.com with SMTP id rp2so3431257pbb.34 for ; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:12:59 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I just found a few of these errors in *Messages* and since I have > 20 .org files, I used this approach cd ~/orgmode # this gives me the byte offset & the filename for each matching line grep -br 'CLOCK: ' * > ~/tmp/org-missing-end.txt #this searches within a few bytes of the byte offset reported by emacs grep -E ":3007.:" ~/tmp/org-missing-end.txt Searching within a few bytes was not necessary. In my case I found a ":CLOCK:" string at the byte-offset in the error message. -- Brian Wood Applications Programmer UC Berkeley IST