From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems invoking org-agenda
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:38:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8068.1330465116@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> of "Tue\, 28 Feb 2012 16\:05\:10 EST." <CAE+_6TysRCsPRNqEPDHaj7caxoc9eoKL8wyT9BmympLSK3EuXg@mail.gmail.com>
Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah perfect! I followed your steps and tracked the problem down to one
> of my agenda files. Not sure why org didn't like it, but when I
> removed that file from my agenda list, it worked like a charm.
>
Did you get a backtrace? That (in combination with the file itself)
should tell pretty clearly why org didn't like it.
> Thank you!
>
You are welcome!
Nick
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe this is too esoteric for anyone to know, but I'm struggling and I can't figure this out.
> >
> > The time is Aquamacs 2.4. The place is org-mode 7.8.03. When I try to invoke org-agenda (C-c a a ---
> > i.e. "Agenda for current week or day"), I get the error message:
> >
> > Args out of range: #(" work : " 0 14 org-category "work" tags nil org-highest-priority 65
> > or-lowest priority 67 time-of-day nil ...)), 0, 20
> >
> > As far as I know I don't have any categories or priorities.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before?
> >
>
> It's probably because of a bad customization. To make sure,
> run with a minimal .emacs that just loads org and *none*
> of your customizations, something as simple as the following
> (with obvious adjustments for your setup):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp -*-
> ;;; constant part
> (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp"))
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
> (require 'org-install)
>
> (setq debug-on-error t)
> (setq debug-on-quit t)
> (setq eval-expression-print-length nil)
> (setq eval-expression-print-level nil)
>
> (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
> (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Save this in your home directory as minimal.org.el and start emacs
> with
>
> emacs -q -l ~/minimal.org.el
>
> and then do C-c a a - do you get the error? Probably not.
>
> The second thing you should do (this in your full emacs session,
> where you get the error) is
>
> M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET
>
> and then C-c a a to trigger the error - but now it will produce a
> backtrace which should tell you where the error occurred. If you can't
> figure it out, post the backtrace to the list.
>
> Nick
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Alternatives:
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-28 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-25 2:51 problems invoking org-agenda Peter Salazar
2012-02-25 5:52 ` Nick Dokos
2012-02-28 21:05 ` Peter Salazar
2012-02-28 21:38 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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