forgot to reply to the list.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Price Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [O] serious calendar integration bug To: David Maus On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, David Maus wrote: > At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:06:38 -0400, > Matt Price wrote: > > > > [1 ] > > > > [2 ] > > Hi folks, > > > > Using a recent git version of org-mode (release_7.5.209.g1a687) with a > fairly recent emacs-snapshot (20110408-1, a package from the debian > emacs-snapshot ppa, but running under ubuntu maverick), I'm having a > > really terrible calendar bug -- not sure if it comes from org or from > emacs, but reporting here in case anyone else has seen it. Attempts to > insert a timestamped schedule or deadline using C-c C-s or C-c C-d > > bring up an EMPTY buffer called Calendar, while REPLACING THE CONTENTS of > the active buffer with the text of a calendar. I had a near-catastrophic > moment where I killed what I thought was a calendar buffer, > > but then ended up erasing my main reference file for all my org notes. > Has anyone seen this behaviour? And do you think it comes form org or > calendar? > > I can't reproduce this with > > GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.3) of > 2011-04-08 on cigue, modified by Debian > > Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.211.gb0094) > > I also tried with release_7.5.209.g1a687 but no luck: I created a new > Org buffer, entered a new headling and scheduling/deadlining with C-c > C-s and C-c C-d worked as expected. > > hmm. There's definitely something funny going on, I presume with emacs rather than org, and (again presumably) something to do with my configs or installed packages. The function that's failing is org-eval-in-calendar: debug(error (wrong-type-argument window-live-p nil)) select-window(nil) org-eval-in-calendar(nil t) If we look at the defun: (defun org-eval-in-calendar (form &optional keepdate) "Eval FORM in the calendar window and return to current window. Also, store the cursor date in variable org-ans2." (let ((sf (selected-frame)) (sw (selected-window))) (select-window (get-buffer-window "*Calendar*" t)) (eval form) (when (and (not keepdate) (calendar-cursor-to-date)) (let* ((date (calendar-cursor-to-date)) (time (encode-time 0 0 0 (nth 1 date) (nth 0 date) (nth 2 date)))) (setq org-ans2 (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d" time)))) (move-overlay org-date-ovl (1- (point)) (1+ (point)) (current-buffer)) (select-window sw) (org-select-frame-set-input-focus sf))) ------- I think emacs is having trouble finding the buffer '*Calendar*' -- even though it clearly exists and can be manually selected using C-x b. I could verify this by just eval-defun'ing this line: (select-window (get-buffer-window "*Calendar*" t)) from the scratch buffer -- this produces the same backtrace. However, oddly, after experiencing the same issue about 6 times in a row, the problem mysteriously disappeared just now, and the procedure is working fine. I have no idea what the issue is there -- I'll report when I find it again. Maybe someone on the list can give me suggestions for debugging if it shows up again? Thanks, Matt Best, > -- David > > -- > OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 > Jabber.... dmjena@jabber.org > Email..... dmaus@ictsoc.de >