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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug] org-capture fails with undefined org-time-was-given variable
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 09:50:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5b4zrqr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738td20qt.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Thu, 23 May 2013 11:07:38 -0400")

Dear Nick & Bastien,

Thanks for your responses.

Both of you indicated that you don't have the problem with Emacs -Q.  I
don't either.  Sorry, I should have tried a minimal example before
posting.

In any case, I have tracked down the offending line in my customisation
that leads to the error:

  (setq org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt nil)

The default is t which allows my capture to work but I don't want a
calendar popup.  Note that there is a new name for this variable,
org-read-date-popup-calendar but it makes no difference which name I
use.

I have tried tracing this through but have failed to figure out why the
setting of this variable makes a difference.  See below.

> Org-mode version 8.0.3 (release_8.0.3-144-gbd09fe @
> /home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/)
>
> That includes a bunch of private commits, but when I look at git history
> I don't find the commit you mention in your org version, f1b99a, so
> maybe you have your own bunch of private commits and one or more of them
> broke something? Maybe try a vanilla org?

My org *is* vanilla!  I try to keep it as such.  I live dangerously
enough by tracking the development version on a relative frequent basis
... :-)

It's very strange that you could not find the commit.  But I have
updated org since then unfortunately so cannot reproduce the
situation.  I am sending this email from a different system so it has a
different org version (long story).

> The variable is indeed not to be set by you: it's a dynamically scoped
> variable, so somebody binds it at some level and then every callee
> (direct or indirect) can access it. Stepping through
> org-capture-set-location shows that it is unbound up until the call to
> org-read-date (line 907-909 in org-capture.el) and it is bound on return
> from that function, at least in my case.

Yes.  The only place I can find where the variable is actually given a
value is in org-data-analyze (sic) but I can't figure out the trail that
leads to this happening (it involves org-end-time-was-given).

I may try later to see if I can figure this out.  In any case, this is
not mission critical in any sense!  I was just surprised when the error
happened.

Thanks again,
eric

-- 
: Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D
: in Emacs 24.3.50.1 and Org release_8.0.2-101-gce5988

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-24  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-23  9:35 [bug] org-capture fails with undefined org-time-was-given variable Eric S Fraga
2013-05-23 15:07 ` Nick Dokos
2013-05-24  8:50   ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2013-06-27 13:36     ` Bastien
2013-05-23 17:54 ` Bastien

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