Re: org-mode breaks buffer indexing in sclang-mode

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode breaks buffer indexing in sclang-mode
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:42:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AE7E7680-FE84-497B-B8E9-DCC5F0D354E2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8CC884.5050000@dewdrop-world.net>

Hi James,

does this only happen when Org-mode opens the calendar,
or also when you use M-x calendar?

- Carsten

On Sep 12, 2010, at 2:33 PM, James Harkins wrote:

> As I said before, I'm really enjoying org-mode. I love that I can  
> keep all my semester's teaching data in one text file and zoom in  
> right to where I want quickly. But, today I found a not-good  
> interaction between it and the main programming mode that I use in  
> Emacs (sclang-mode, an interactive front end for the supercollider*  
> audio programming language).
>
> Supercollider keeps objects internally for code documents. These are  
> connected to Emacs buffers. The sclang-mode lisp code assigns an  
> integer index to buffers that supercollider is supposed to know  
> about, and passes those indices into the sc interpreter. When I run  
> sclang-mode on its own, this is all totally stable. It's also stable  
> if I have an org-mode buffer open and I'm editing only.
>
> As soon as org-mode opens a calendar buffer, the sclang interpreter  
> no longer knows about its Document buffers -- i.e., when in a buffer  
> that's been loaded from disk, the sc code "Document.current.path"  
> should return the full path to the file, but after opening the  
> calendar, Document.current returns 'nil' and .path fails with an  
> error. This could happen if Emacs tells sclang that the buffer  
> closed (but the buffer is still open).
>
> This is consistent behavior that I can reproduce on-demand, both in  
> Aquamacs 1.9 (OSX) and Emacs 23 on Ubuntu. Opening an agenda view  
> does not trigger the problem. It seems to be just the calendar.
>
> Why would opening a calendar buffer to choose a date mess around  
> with other modes' buffers?
>
> Not a major, major problem for me but it seems something fishy is  
> going on and I thought I would report it.
>
> James
>
> * http://supercollider.sourceforge.net
>
>
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- Carsten