From: Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: wrong-type-argument when changing TODO state [7.7]
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:59:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKvLAoiSk_Y3e_1Q9CsCrQxDrERwsFWSp=U0oN+10vbOBWjTgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKvLAoj04+Z4CHaZUTfwf9nJaedrfudfnOqtcRrxOEbc47Md8g@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 23:42, Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:59, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>> Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 19:09, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>>> > Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >> I am trying to switch between TODO and DONE states with Shift-Right
>>> >> Arrow and I get a (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) error.
>>> >>
>>> >> Please find attached the backtrace.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Emacs : GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
>>> >> of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian
>>> >> Package: Org-mode version 7.7
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>>> >> looking-at(nil)
>>> >> (save-excursion (beginning-of-line 1) (looking-at org-todo-line-regexp))
>>> >> (and (outline-on-heading-p) (not (bolp)) (save-excursion (beginning-of-line 1) (looking-at org-todo-line-regexp)) (< (point) (+ 2 ...)))
>>> >> (if (and (outline-on-heading-p) (not ...) (save-excursion ... ...) (< ... ...)) (progn (goto-char ...) (and ... ...)))
>>> >> (let* ...)
>>> >> (catch (quote exit) ...)
>>> >> (save-excursion (catch (quote exit)...)
>>> >> (let ...)
>>> >> org-todo(right)
>>> >> call-interactively(org-todo)
>>> >> (let ((current-prefix-arg arg)) (call-interactively command))
>>> >> org-call-with-arg(org-todo right)
>>> >> (let ...)
>>> >> (cond ...)
>>> >> org-shiftright(nil)
>>> >> call-interactively(org-shiftright nil nil)
>>> >
>>> > The problem is that org-todo-line-regexp is nil. This variable is
>>> > made buffer-local and initialized when the buffer's mode is set
>>> > to org-mode.
>>> >
>>> > Are you sure that your buffer's major mode is org-mode?
>>> >
>>> > Nick
>>> >
>>>
>>> Yeah, the mode shows as org-mode.
>>
>> What happens if while visiting the buffer, you say
>>
>> C-h v org-todo-line-regexp RET
>>
>> Is the value reported nil?
>
> Yes, the value is nil.
>
>>
>>> But now I get another weird one.
>>> Everytime I open an org file, I see the following message in the
>>> minibuffer:
>>>
>>> File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument keymap nil)
>>>
>>
>> That will require another backtrace but...
>>
>>> I'm lost ...
>>
>> When you get to the point of feeling lost, it's time to take a step
>> back. Make yourself a minimal.emacs that contains just the basics to
>> get org-mode loaded - assuming you get your org sources from git, then
>> you need something like this (with pathnames changed appropriately):
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp -*-
>> ;;; constant part
>> (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp"))
>> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
>> (require 'org-install)
>> (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
>> (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Then start up an emacs without any of your customizations, load the minimal.emacs
>> file and visit an org file and try what you tried before:
>>
>> emacs -q -l /path/to/minimal.emacs /path/to/somefile.org
>>
>> and try changing a TODO as before. Does that work?
>
> Tried this one and indeed, it works now. Looking at the
> org-todo-line-regexp variable I can see it's no longer reported nil.
>
>> If not, try -Q
>> instead of -q: does *that* work?
>>
>> Assuming one of these works, then you have localized the problem to
>> some customization (yours or the systems) and then there are various
>> ways to proceed.
>>
>
> So it is a customization issue. Now the question is what :-). I should
> mention that I am using both dev versions for Emacs and org-mode
> (Emacs from bzr from a few days ago and org-mode from git from a few
> days ago) on Mac OS X 10.7. Emacs is installed using homebrew.
>
Ok, it seems like I've found the culprit. It's this line:
;; Make org-mode default for all the new files
(setq major-mode 'org-mode)
If I comment it out, it all works beautifully. I thought it was
because I was executing it before loading org-mode, but I've made sure
org-mode is loaded before executing that line and I still get the same
error.
Any ideas why it happens?
Thanks,
S.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-29 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-28 11:24 Bug: wrong-type-argument when changing TODO state [7.7] Stelian Iancu
2011-08-28 17:09 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-29 7:41 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 7:59 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-29 13:32 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 21:42 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 21:59 ` Stelian Iancu [this message]
2011-08-29 22:37 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-29 23:02 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-30 17:21 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-31 11:03 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-30 7:47 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-08-29 22:25 ` Nick Dokos
[not found] ` <stelian.iancu@gmail.com>
2011-11-24 8:03 ` Org from ELPA question Stelian Iancu
2011-11-24 8:17 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-24 8:38 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-11-24 12:23 ` Jambunathan K
2011-11-24 12:55 ` Stelian Iancu
2011-11-24 20:44 ` Achim Gratz
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.orgmode.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAKvLAoiSk_Y3e_1Q9CsCrQxDrERwsFWSp=U0oN+10vbOBWjTgg@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=stelian.iancu@gmail.com \
--cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
--cc=nicholas.dokos@hp.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).