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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] org-agenda-list (from git) giving "args-out-of-range error"
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:28:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8091.1330543726@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> of "Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:12:32 CST." <87ehtd78tb.fsf_-_@floss.red-bean.com>

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> >There have been a couple of recent reports on this problem (headlines
> >with just a timestamp cause this error) in addition to the ones you
> >found:
> >
> >    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52621
> >    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52786
> >
> >The first one contains a diagnosis and a (possibly wrong) suggested fix.
> 
> Thank you, Nick.  I eventually found the same cause, by doing a
> binary-search reduction of the problematic .org file until I knew
> exactly which headline was the source of the problem.  It was a
> second-level headline with a date but no content...
> 
>   ** <2012-02-27 Mon>
> 
> ...as described in James Atwood's mail (the second one you list above).
> 
> It's relevant that the line ends immediately after the ">".  If there is
> even one space after the ">", then the bug does not reproduce.  This
> makes sense, given the code.  I have a tentative patch, which is
> attached.  What's the typical way to submit such things for review?
> 

Exactly what you've done: send the patch to the list.

Modulo possible changelog formatting issues (see
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#sec-5 for the gory details),
the patch looks good to me. Thanks for submitting it!

Nick


> From 8a4c65479b2f62cbffe32735c4afac5dd6a1ecae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:06:06 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/org-agenda.el (org-agenda-highlight-todo): Handle the
>  case of a heading that has a date but no todo keyword. 
>  This is a fix for the args-out-of-range bug discussed in
>  these threads
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52621
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52793
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52786
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52810
> 
> among Ilya Shlyakhter, James Atwood, Nick Dokos, and myself.  The subject headers are:
> 
>   bug report: agenda timeline crashes
>   Bug report: weekly agenda and blank, timestamped headers
>   org-agenda-list (from git) giving "args-out-of-range error"
> ---
>  lisp/org-agenda.el |   12 +++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
> index 98a2cc0..ac1b5b1 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
> @@ -5889,8 +5889,18 @@ could bind the variable in the options section of a custom command.")
>        (let ((pl (text-property-any 0 (length x) 'org-heading t x)))
>  	(setq re (get-text-property 0 'org-todo-regexp x))
>  	(when (and re
> +		   ;; Test `pl' because if there's no heading content,
> +		   ;; there's no point matching to highlight.  Note
> +		   ;; that if we didn't test `pl' first, and there
> +		   ;; happened to be no keyword from `org-todo-regexp'
> +		   ;; on this heading line, then the `equal' comparison
> +		   ;; afterwards would spuriously succeed in the case
> +		   ;; where `pl' is nil -- causing an args-out-of-range
> +		   ;; error when we try to add text properties to text
> +		   ;; that isn't there.
> +		   pl
>  		   (equal (string-match (concat "\\(\\.*\\)" re "\\( +\\)")
> -					x (or pl 0)) pl))
> +					x pl) pl))
>  	  (add-text-properties
>  	   (or (match-end 1) (match-end 0)) (match-end 0)
>  	   (list 'face (org-get-todo-face (match-string 2 x)))
> -- 
> 1.7.9
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28 22:08 org-agenda-list (from git) giving "args-out-of-range error" Karl Fogel
2012-02-28 22:35 ` Nick Dokos
2012-02-29 19:12   ` [PATCH] " Karl Fogel
2012-02-29 19:28     ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-02-29 19:45       ` Karl Fogel
2012-03-04 20:01         ` David Maus
2012-03-04 20:48           ` Karl Fogel

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