From: Alex Kosorukoff <alex@3form.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix: Capture abort: (error: The mark is not set now, so there is no region)
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 20:55:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHD9_tT9HN9K_N2CJU1+Fsxz2fyqAA8dwpLUA1gZGqMA7uGv9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877g681jma.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
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After I replaced my patch and merged Bastien's fix, I started seeing the
error though less frequently than before. It didn't occur in the template I
posted, but I started seeing it again in another template.
("w" "org-protocol tag" entry (file "~/org/bookmarks.org")
"* %:description %(org-set-tags)\n %i\n\n %:link\n%?"
:prepend t :empty-lines-after 1 :clock-in t :clock-resume t)
I switched back to my initial patch that was checking if the mark was set
before trying to access the region. This worked: the errors disappeared.
However, I couldn't understand why mark would be unset in the first place.
It turns out that this is a result of the function
org-capture-steal-local-variables that is copying mark-active variable from
another buffer. This results in an inconsistent state where mark is not set
and yet the variable mark-active is set. Emacs functions region-active-p
and use-region-p expect the state to be consistent and fail with this error
that they won't produce under normal circumstances. Here is the minimal
patch that fixes the root cause of this problem:
From 3d84403964dec1ac55810883e4e8a812c3ff94fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Kosorukoff <alex@3form.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 20:27:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] org-capture: better fix for error "The mark is not set
now, ..."
---
lisp/org-capture.el | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org-capture.el b/lisp/org-capture.el
index d57b9e0..3c62b1d 100644
--- a/lisp/org-capture.el
+++ b/lisp/org-capture.el
@@ -1590,6 +1590,7 @@ The template may still contain \"%?\" for cursor
positioning."
(goto-char (point-min))
(org-capture-steal-local-variables buffer)
(setq buffer-file-name nil)
+ (setq mark-active nil)
;; %[] Insert contents of a file.
(goto-char (point-min))
--
1.7.0.4
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Kosorukoff <alex@3form.com> writes:
>
> > I noticed a regression in the capture functionality after upgrading
> > org. Capture fails with error in subj
>
> fixed, thanks,
>
> --
> Bastien
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-26 0:06 [PATCH] Fix: Capture abort: (error: The mark is not set now, so there is no region) Alex Kosorukoff
2014-04-29 11:05 ` Bastien
2014-05-09 3:55 ` Alex Kosorukoff [this message]
2014-05-23 12:03 ` Bastien
2014-05-23 16:37 ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-23 17:28 ` Bastien
2014-05-23 17:56 ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-23 19:19 ` Bastien
2014-05-23 19:53 ` Bastien
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