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 23:42:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKvLAoj04+Z4CHaZUTfwf9nJaedrfudfnOqtcRrxOEbc47Md8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23342.1314604746@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org>
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.
> Nick
>
>>
>> S.
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-29 21:43 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 [this message]
2011-08-29 21:59 ` Stelian Iancu
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
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