From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Bug: wrong-type-argument when changing TODO state [7.7] Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:02:48 -0400 Message-ID: <6392.1314658968@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <4E5A2556.50106@gmail.com> <27177.1314551389@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <23342.1314604746@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <6210.1314657464@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39231) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyAqx-0001z4-7t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:02:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyAqw-0006D4-6l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:02:51 -0400 Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:42985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyAqw-0006Cq-0Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:02:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Nick Dokos of "Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:37:44 EDT." <6210.1314657464@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> 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: Stelian Iancu Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I'm pretty tired and I might have misunderstood what is happening here, so don't put too much weight on the following. I'll need some sleep before I can take a whack at it again however. Nick Nick Dokos wrote: > Stelian Iancu 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 >