Re: org-goto-local-search-headings usage?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone see what I am doing wrong here?  I just want to open a file
> ~/tmp/gtd.org and goto the heading "* My workflow".  So, starting like
> this:
> 
> emacs -Q -l ~/tmp/gtd
> 
> with ~/tmp/gtd:
> 
> (add-to-list 'load-path
> 	     "~/.emacs.d/plugins/org-mode/lisp")
> (require 'org-install) ;; to use the emacs-org-mode rather than the one
>                        ;; installed with emacs
> 
> (defun gtd()
>    (interactive)
>    (find-file "~/tmp/gtd.org")
>    (goto-char (point-min))
>    (setq wf "My workflow")
>    (org-goto-local-search-headings wf nil nil)
> )
> 
> and ~/tmp/gtd.org:
> 
> * My workflow
> 
> then I do:
> 
> M-x gtd
> 
> and get the message:
> 
> byte-code: Search failed: "My workflow"
> 

Works for me: the cursor is placed at the end of the headline.
I tried both with just the one headline and also with half a 
dozen.

Maybe M-x toggle-debug-on-error and try again to get a backtrace?
Or add

   (setq debug-on-error t)

to your initialization file.

Nick