From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Subject: Re: partial-completion-mode error when refiling
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:34:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <757B4199-1E4F-485F-975A-48E49E0330BD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11283.1309437640@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org>
On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>> "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:
>>
>>> When I was trying to refile an extract of an email, I got this:
>>>
>>> Getting targets...done
>>> funcall: Symbol's function definition is void: partial-completion-mode
>>
>> thanks for reporting this -- this is indeed something wrong with the fix
>> I made to `org-without-partial-completion' (see my other message to Paul
>> Sexton).
>>
>> I reverted his patch so you won't see this error again.
>>
>
> I'm not sure that't the problem though: the org-without-partial-completion
> macro is called in a couple of places, once in org-remember.el and twice
> in org.el. I'm not sure how many people still use org-remember, but I suspect
> quite a few. The macro basically says: execute the body while mmaking sure
> that partial-completion-body is off during the execution. At least, that's
> the intent but I haven't thought through the quoting change that Paul made.
>
> The calls:
>
> o org-remember-apply-template: called in the g or G case to complete tags.
> o org.el: in org-icompleting-read.
> o org.el: in org-set-tags *around* org-icompleting-read.
>
> The last one seems superfluous at first sight, but I haven't thought about
> it yet.
Yes, this one is superfluous.
>
> In any case, these seem fairly common situations so I think it is likely
> that the macro has been called hundreds of times (over the whole org population)
> without ill effects.
>
> OTOH, partial-completion-mode is called explicitly in org-refile-get-location,
> like this:
>
> (partial-completion-mode nil)
This is not a function-calling form, but this is part of a let form,
so it just sets the variable partial-completion-mode to nil.
In effect, this does indeed turn off partial-completion-mode for
the body of the form.
>
> Could it be that it is really meant to turn *off* partial completion mode?
> In which case, it would be better to call the org-without-partion-completion
> macro here to do the work.
>
> In any case, this explicit call seems to be more problematic than the macro.
> After all that's what Seb hit.
>
> Nick
>
>
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-30 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-30 8:10 partial-completion-mode error when refiling Sebastien Vauban
2011-06-30 9:14 ` Bastien
2011-06-30 12:40 ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-30 13:34 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-06-30 14:05 ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-30 15:07 ` Bastien
2011-06-30 13:35 ` Sebastien Vauban
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