* Irrelevant/misleading error message (due to bad syntax in init-file)
@ 2018-05-15 11:25 Alain.Cochard
2018-05-15 17:50 ` Nick Dokos
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From: Alain.Cochard @ 2018-05-15 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hello.
I do the following.
The file ~/.emacs.debug contains:
(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/cochard/Org/Coch-git/org-mode/lisp")
(setq org-agenda-files '"/tmp/bug-agenda.org") ; <- bad syntax!
(find-file "/tmp/bug-agenda2.org") ; <- empty file
The file /tmp/bug-agenda.org contains:
* Foo :bar:
I run:
emacs -debug-init -Q -l ~/.emacs.debug
NB: there is no message caused by "-debug-init" related to the bad
syntax in the setq instruction.
When in the empty "bug-agenda2.org", if I do "M-x org-agenda m" I, get
(temporarily) in the minibuffer:
Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its
parents
In the minibuffer, if I type "<TAB>" or "b<TAB>" or "ba<TAB>" or
"bar"<TAB>, I get "[No match]". If after either of these 4 "<TAB>" I
hit the "<Return>" key, I get:
Non-existent agenda file ~/org/* Foo :bar:. [R]emove from list or
[A]bort?
NB: I don't have an "~/org" file or directory.
I have:
Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
3.18.9) of 2016-04-11 on buildvm-25.phx2.fedoraproject.org Package:
Org mode version 9.1.13 (release_9.1.13-755-gc46fcd @
/home/cochard/Org/Coch-git/org-mode/lisp/)
I apologize if this issue is too minor (or otherwise inappropriate) to
be reported -- please let me know if so.
Regards
--
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* Re: Irrelevant/misleading error message (due to bad syntax in init-file)
2018-05-15 11:25 Irrelevant/misleading error message (due to bad syntax in init-file) Alain.Cochard
@ 2018-05-15 17:50 ` Nick Dokos
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From: Nick Dokos @ 2018-05-15 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr writes:
> ...
> (setq org-agenda-files '"/tmp/bug-agenda.org") ; <- bad syntax!
> ...
> NB: there is no message caused by "-debug-init" related to the bad
> syntax in the setq instruction.
>
That's because it's legal: it's not bad syntax:
'"foo" is equivalent to (quote "foo"). Now `quote' inhibits
evaluation but since strings evaluate to themselves, it does
not matter whether you evaluate or not.
--
Nick
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
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