* possible bug in ox-odt.el?
@ 2014-05-25 15:18 Matt Price
2014-05-26 3:32 ` Nick Dokos
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From: Matt Price @ 2014-05-25 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org Mode
Hello,
for some time I've noticed that the export to odt options were not
being offered in the export menu options (C-c E-c), even though I have
(require ox-odt) in my startup file. Attempts to evaluate ox-odt
manually failed with this error:
defconst: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
I've tracked the problem down to org-odt-lib-dir:
(defconst org-odt-lib-dir
(file-name-directory load-file-name)
"Location of ODT exporter.
Use this to infer values of `org-odt-styles-dir' and
`org-odt-schema-dir'.")
from what I can tell, 'load-file-name' appears to be nil. Replacing
(file-name-directory load-file-name)
with a string like:
"/home/matt/src/org-mode/lisp/ox-odt.el"
fixes the problem for me, but that doesn't seem like a very robust
solution. I don't understand emacs internals very well, but is this
possibly a bug in ox-odt.el, or more likely something in my own
(poorly maintained) setup files?
Thanks,
Matt
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* Re: possible bug in ox-odt.el?
2014-05-25 15:18 possible bug in ox-odt.el? Matt Price
@ 2014-05-26 3:32 ` Nick Dokos
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2014-05-26 3:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> for some time I've noticed that the export to odt options were not
> being offered in the export menu options (C-c E-c), even though I have
> (require ox-odt) in my startup file. Attempts to evaluate ox-odt
> manually failed with this error:
>
Not sure what that means: do you mean "load"?
> defconst: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>
> I've tracked the problem down to org-odt-lib-dir:
>
> (defconst org-odt-lib-dir
> (file-name-directory load-file-name)
> "Location of ODT exporter.
> Use this to infer values of `org-odt-styles-dir' and
> `org-odt-schema-dir'.")
>
>
> from what I can tell, 'load-file-name' appears to be nil. Replacing
>
> (file-name-directory load-file-name)
>
> with a string like:
>
> "/home/matt/src/org-mode/lisp/ox-odt.el"
>
> fixes the problem for me, but that doesn't seem like a very robust
> solution. I don't understand emacs internals very well, but is this
> possibly a bug in ox-odt.el, or more likely something in my own
> (poorly maintained) setup files?
>
load-file-name is a variable that's supposed to hold the full name of
the file being loaded by `load'. It's going to be nil most of the time.
It's only while a file is being loaded that it assumes a non-nil value.
Try M-x load-file RET /path/to/ox-odt.el RET and see if you get an
error. And maybe update org.
--
Nick
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