Re: Bug: i in agenda complains mark is not active now [6.33trans (release_6.33c.26.ga839)]

From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: i in agenda complains mark is not active now [6.33trans (release_6.33c.26.ga839)]
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:11:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr7dqtud.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1017F01F-6BCA-45A4-8AEA-3676668374C4@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri\, 20 Nov 2009 06\:52\:19 +0100")

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> I cannot reproduce this.  Can you please send a backtrace?
>
> - Carsten

I can't reproduce it with the tip of master today either so I think
it's fixed.  It's broken on the commit I was on yesterday which is

1bb0df0 (Allow diary entry insertion at top-level, 2009-11-19)

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (mark-inactive)
  signal(mark-inactive nil)
  mark()
  (and (mark) (get-text-property (mark) (quote day)) (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (get-text-property ... ...)))
  (setq d1 (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (get-text-property ... ...)) d2 (and (mark) (get-text-property ... ...) (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute ...)))
  (if (equal (buffer-name) "*Calendar*") (setq d1 (calendar-cursor-to-date t) d2 (car calendar-mark-ring)) (setq d1 (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute ...) d2 (and ... ... ...)))
  (let (d1 d2 char (text "")) (if (equal ... "*Calendar*") (setq d1 ... d2 ...) (setq d1 ... d2 ...)) (message "Diary entry: [d]ay [a]nniversary [b]lock [j]ump to date tree") (setq char (read-char-exclusive)) (cond (... ... ...) (... ... ... ...) (... ... ... ...) (... ... ... ...) (t ...)))
  org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file()
  (if (not (eq org-agenda-diary-file ...)) (org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file) (require (quote diary-lib)) (let* (... ... ... ... ...) (unless cmd ...) (unless ... ...) (let ... ...)))
  org-agenda-diary-entry()
  call-interactively(org-agenda-diary-entry)

-Bernt

>
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>
>>
>> Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and
>> what in fact did happen.  You don't know how to make a good report?
>> See
>>
>>     http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
>>
>> Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> When org-agenda-diary-file is set to a special org file for diary
>> entries and transient mark mode is enabled 'i' in the agenda fails
>> with 'mark is not active now'
>>
>> My workaround for this is C-SPC to set the mark anywhere legal in the
>> agenda display (ie not on the first or last line) and then hit 'i'
>> to insert my diary entries.
>>
>> -Bernt
>>
>> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
>> of 2008-11-09 on raven, modified by Debian
>> Package: Org-mode version 6.33trans (release_6.33c.26.ga839)
>>
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>
> - Carsten