* Org-capture template no longer recognised...
@ 2021-01-04 22:42 Neil Shephard
2021-01-06 4:43 ` Kyle Meyer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Neil Shephard @ 2021-01-04 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs-orgmode
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Hi,
I am enjoying learning more and more about how functional and useful
org-mode is, truly amazing software.
One thing I've setup is a Babel document for logging exercise activities
and accompanying custom org-capture-templates for entering data. These
worked great until recently but with no conscious change to my
org-capture-template they are now broken.
A simple example of the document is ~/org/training/training.org
* Running
** Log
#+NAME: running-log
#+CAPTION: Running Log
| Date | Route | Distance | Time |
Pace | Notes |
|------------------+-------------------+----------+--------------+-------------------------------+-------------|
| <2021-01-03 Fri> | Shorter 12km run | 12.25km | 60min + 25s | 4
min / km + 55.918367 s / km | Less icey! |
| <2021-01-01 Fri> | Longer 16km run | 16.22km | 80min + 03s | 4
min / km + 56.115906 s / km | Icey! |
I then have a ~/org/computing.org for keeping notes of tasks to do, a
simple example is...
* Emacs
** TODO <2020-11-11 Wed> vterm only on non-work computers.
My org-capture-templates are...
(setq org-capture-templates
'(;; Computing
("c" "Computing")
("ce" "Emacs" entry (file+olp "~/org/computing.org" "Emacs")
"* TODO %t %?\n" :prepend t)
;; Exercise
("e" "Exercise")
("er" "Logging a run" table-line (file+olp
"~/org/training/training.org" "Running" "Log")
"| %t | %? | km | min + s | | |" :prepend t)
("ec" "Logging a cycle" table-line (file+olp
"~/org/training/training.org" "Cycling" "Log")
"| %t | %? | km | min + s | | |" :prepend t)))
Until recently I could invoke org-capture, select e r and I'd be
prompted to enter data under Route...
| <2021-01-03 | <cursor here to start entry> | km | min + s | | |
On saving this would populate the table and calculate the pace. Now
though I'm informed...
Capture abort: Symbol's function definition is void: assert
Debugging shows...
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Capture abort: Symbol’s function
definition is voi...")
signal(error ("Capture abort: Symbol’s function definition is voi..."))
error("Capture abort: %s" "Symbol’s function definition is void: assert")
org-capture(nil) funcall-interactively(org-capture nil)
call-interactively(org-capture nil nil)
command-execute(org-capture)
I asked on Emacs Stackexchange
<https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/62579/org-capture-templates-stopped-working?noredirect=1#comment98645_62579>
and it was suggested the error lay with cl.el as assert is a function
of this deprecated package. The suggested additional of (require 'cl)
didn't improve things, just got a
different error message...
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Capture abort: Invalid function: assert")
signal(error ("Capture abort: Invalid function: assert"))
error("Capture abort: %s" "Invalid function: assert")
org-capture(nil)
funcall-interactively(org-capture nil)
call-interactively(org-capture nil nil)
command-execute(org-capture)
As I say I'd not changed my configuration which is the org-mode
bundled with Emacs 27.1. I do have
a few computers though and it was still working on a second system
until I update installed packages,
after which the original error messsage (Capture abort: Symbol's
function definition is void: assert)
occurred again. The packages I updated seem unrelated (to my
untrained eye). They were...
company-20201214.1620
ein-20201217.1508
flycheck-20201214.2154
forge-20201212.905
magit-20201212.929
org-ref-20201126.1924
pass-20190830.2017
projectile-20201214.839
python-mode-20201218.751
pyvenv-20201210.1509
auctex-12.3.1
dash-20201215.59
dash-functional-20201215.40
ess-20201217.1440
git-commit-20201115.2313
helm-20201215.1623
helm-core-20201202.907
ivy-20201217.1559
key-chord-20160227.1238
markdown-mode-20201211.329
mpdel-20201026.1123
transient-20201205.1610
What is strange is that capturing to ~/org/computing.org still works fine.
If there is any more information I can provide to assist with working
out where this is occurring
please let me know.
Thanks and regards,
Neil
--
*Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge* - Charles
Darwin
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* Re: Org-capture template no longer recognised...
2021-01-04 22:42 Neil Shephard
@ 2021-01-06 4:43 ` Kyle Meyer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Kyle Meyer @ 2021-01-06 4:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nshephard; +Cc: Emacs-orgmode
Neil Shephard writes:
> Until recently I could invoke org-capture, select e r and I'd be
> prompted to enter data under Route...
>
> | <2021-01-03 | <cursor here to start entry> | km | min + s | | |
>
>
> On saving this would populate the table and calculate the pace. Now
> though I'm informed...
>
> Capture abort: Symbol's function definition is void: assert
[...]
> As I say I'd not changed my configuration which is the org-mode
> bundled with Emacs 27.1. I do have
Hmm, so that's Org 9.3. There aren't many plain assert's left in the
Org repo, just a few spots in contrib/ files (which aren't included in
Emacs):
$ git grep '(assert\b' release_9.3
release_9.3:contrib/lisp/org-attach-embedded-images.el: (assert data)
release_9.3:contrib/lisp/org-learn.el: (assert (> n 0))
release_9.3:contrib/lisp/org-learn.el: (assert (and (>= quality 0) (<= quality 5)))
release_9.3:contrib/lisp/ox-freemind.el: (assert (symbolp (car parsed-xml))))
$ git grep '(cl-assert\b' release_9.3 | wc
37 191 3163
So...
>
> a few computers though and it was still working on a second system
> until I update installed packages,
...it does seem likely that the issue is outside of Org proper. But
unfortunately I don't have any suggestions about where that might be, or
why it's getting triggered in the above scenario. Hopefully others
will.
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* Re: Org-capture template no longer recognised...
@ 2021-01-07 17:57 Neil Shephard
2021-01-08 10:12 ` Ihor Radchenko
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Neil Shephard @ 2021-01-07 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs-orgmode
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Thanks for looking into this Kyle.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 4:43 AM, Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
>
> ...it does seem likely that the issue is outside of Org proper. But
> unfortunately I don't have any suggestions about where that might be, or
> why it's getting triggered in the above scenario. Hopefully others
> will.
Beyond downgrading each of the packages I listed if anyone has suggestions
on how to debug this further please let me know, more than happy to work
through this and post back to the list.
--
*Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high **degree
of improbability.* - R.A. Fisher
*Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge* - Charles
Darwin
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* Re: Org-capture template no longer recognised...
2021-01-07 17:57 Org-capture template no longer recognised Neil Shephard
@ 2021-01-08 10:12 ` Ihor Radchenko
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ihor Radchenko @ 2021-01-08 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nshephard, Emacs-orgmode
Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> writes:
> Beyond downgrading each of the packages I listed if anyone has suggestions
> on how to debug this further please let me know, more than happy to work
> through this and post back to the list.
You can try bug-hunter package [1] to narrow down the cause. One example
of using the package: https://github.com/yantar92/org/issues/11
[1] https://github.com/Malabarba/elisp-bug-hunter
Hope it helps.
P.S. Would it make sense to have some write-up about debugging user
configuration in org wiki?
Best,
Ihor
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* Re: Org-capture template no longer recognised...
@ 2021-01-12 23:44 Neil Shephard
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Neil Shephard @ 2021-01-12 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs-orgmode
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Friday, January 8, 2021 10:08 AM, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> You can try bug-hunter package [1] to narrow down the cause. One example
> of using the package: https://github.com/yantar92/org/issues/11
>
> [1] https://github.com/Malabarba/elisp-bug-hunter
>
> Hope it helps.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Fortunately (for me) as mysteriously as the error cropped up after updating
packages this week it has disappeared and the org-capture templates work
again. Didn't change anything in the template at all.
Useful to know about bug-hunter though so thank you for the pointer.
Neil
--
*Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge* - Charles
Darwin
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