From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries? Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:07:22 -0500 Message-ID: <5493.1320790042@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <49FF00AC-D45D-41ED-95A9-98C771F52282@math.ethz.ch> <32789D68-74E0-4B80-9C17-BB9C405535F9@math.ethz.ch> <4660.1320787996@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> <545524F1-AC54-4ADB-8EDA-6AA4BBAA551E@math.ethz.ch> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39229) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNtpG-00038Z-MX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:07:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNtpE-0007nY-Uf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:07:26 -0500 Received: from g1t0029.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.36]:23612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNtpE-0007nP-Ml for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:07:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Marius Hofert of "Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:43:22 +0100." <545524F1-AC54-4ADB-8EDA-6AA4BBAA551E@math.ethz.ch> 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: Marius Hofert Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Emacs help Marius Hofert wrote: > > > > The org sexp handler issues this message whenever an error is signalled > > when trying to evaluate the sexp. > > > > In this case (as in most of these cases), the error is probably because > > org-contacts-anniversaries is not defined, for whatever reason. > > > > Try to eval > > > > (org-contacts-anniversaries) > > > > manually - what do you get? I get > > > > via M-x org-contacts-anniversaries? I get "No match" > No, via ESC ESC : (org-contacts-anniversaries) RET or similar. M-x foo requires that foo is a command (aka an "interactive" function): org-contacts-anniversaries is not. > > ,---- > > | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function org-contacts-anniversaries) > > | (org-contacts-anniversaries) > > | eval((org-contacts-anniversaries) nil) > > | eval-last-sexp-1(nil) > > | eval-last-sexp(nil) > > | call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) > > `---- > > > > Then load org-contacts with > > > > (require 'org-contacts) > > Yes, I already had this in .emacs (and obtained "No match") > > > > > or similar, and try the eval again. I get nil as a result, but more > > importantly, no error. Assuming that you get no error either, try the > > agenda again. > > > > Nick > > I found out that the error happens due to either one of two reasons: > 1) I have a :BIRTHDAY: tag which is <1970 or >2037 > 2) I have an empty :BIRTHDAY: tag > Have you seen my link to stackoverflow above? I got help there and finally realized that it's linked to the problem discussed here (involving posts of you, too): > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206 > Glanced at it, but didn't go far enough to read about those problems. > Is that solved? Will it be (automatically) solved if Emacs (for Mac) learns how to use the Mac's 64 bit architecture? > Not sure. Nick > Cheers, > > Marius > >