From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: "read only buffer" message in orgmode Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:00:38 -0700 Message-ID: <9F5D22F1-8B12-4239-8804-A7DEC637A29A@uva.nl> References: <19747214.1541216809017295.JavaMail.gbourne@brunch.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KM57P-0004VK-Tk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KM57O-0004U3-PK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36602 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KM57O-0004Ts-Kp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:46 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]:3889) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KM57O-0003Wo-BR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <19747214.1541216809017295.JavaMail.gbourne@brunch.mit.edu> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: bostjanv@alum.mit.edu Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:30 AM, bostjanv@alum.mit.edu wrote: > Hello, > I'm running emacs 22.2 with orgmode v. 4.67 on Windows XP, and I'm > just starting to use orgmode. However, I seem to cannot go beyond a > (probably) trivial problem: [...] > (custom-set-variables > ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. > '(calendar-time-display-form (quote (24-hours ":" minutes (if time- > zone " (") time-zone (if time-zone ")")))) > '(diary-file "~/.emacs.d/diary") > '(org-agenda-files (quote ("~/.emacs.d/notes.org" ""))) ^^^ Most likely this is caused by the empty string in this customization. Probably you did press the INS butten in the customize interface once too often. Just remove it and you should be fine. HTH - Carsten