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Subject: Re: orgmode-contacts "wrong type arguments"
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On 2015-02-17T00:17:59+1100, Tory S. Anderson said:
 
 TSA> In my efforts to improve my elisp, can anyone tell me why 
 the code TSA> doesn't work, and what might have changed to cause 
 it to break?

 TSA> Error: completion-in-region: Wrong type argument: listp, 
 #("NAME TSA> <address@gmail.com>, NAME <address@aol.com>, NAME 
 TSA> <address@gmail.com>, NAME <address@gatech.edu>" 0 15 
 (fontified TSA> nil org-category "contacts") 44 65 (fontified nil 
 org-category TSA> "contacts") 88 99 (fontified nil org-category 
 "contacts") 127 TSA> 141 (fontified nil org-category "contacts"))

It looks like something in `completion-in-region` wanted a plain 
old list of items, but instead got a propertized string. For 
further information, check out section "31.19.2, Changing Text 
Properties" of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual - in particular, 
the entry for the `propertize` function.


Alexis.