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 18:37:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6210.1314657464@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> of "Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:59:58 +0200." <CAKvLAoiSk_Y3e_1Q9CsCrQxDrERwsFWSp=U0oN+10vbOBWjTgg@mail.gmail.com>
Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So it is a customization issue. Now the question is what :-). I should
> > mention that I am using both dev versions for Emacs and org-mode
> > (Emacs from bzr from a few days ago and org-mode from git from a few
> > days ago) on Mac OS X 10.7. Emacs is installed using homebrew.
> >
>
> Ok, it seems like I've found the culprit. It's this line:
>
> ;; Make org-mode default for all the new files
> (setq major-mode 'org-mode)
>
> If I comment it out, it all works beautifully. I thought it was
> because I was executing it before loading org-mode, but I've made sure
> org-mode is loaded before executing that line and I still get the same
> error.
>
> Any ideas why it happens?
>
Yes - don't ever do that. The major mode of a buffer is set by calling a
function (e.g. the org-mode function for buffers that should be in org
mode). That function does a million things to make sure that everything
works properly: your setting a single variable does none of that and all
you end up doing is confusing emacs.
In most cases, you don't even call the mode function explicitly: it is
called for you automatically, e.g. through the setting of auto-mode-alist.
I have the following in my basic customizations:
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))
That says to emacs: when find-file is called to open a file whose name
ends in `.org' arrange to call the function org-mode on it. The function
takes care of the setting of major-mode.
Be sure to read Ch.23 of the emacs manual on major modes.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-29 22:37 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
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 [this message]
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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