Re: How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?

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

Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> wrote:

> > 
> > The org sexp handler issues this message whenever an error is signalled
> > when trying to evaluate the sexp.
> > 
> > In this case (as in most of these cases), the error is probably because
> > org-contacts-anniversaries is not defined, for whatever reason.
> > 
> > Try to eval
> > 
> >    (org-contacts-anniversaries)
> > 
> > manually - what do you get? I get 
> > 
> 
> via M-x org-contacts-anniversaries? I get "No match"
> 

No, via

     ESC ESC : (org-contacts-anniversaries) RET

or similar. M-x foo requires that foo is a command (aka an "interactive"
function): org-contacts-anniversaries is not.

> > ,----
> > | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function org-contacts-anniversaries)
> > |   (org-contacts-anniversaries)
> > |   eval((org-contacts-anniversaries) nil)
> > |   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
> > |   eval-last-sexp(nil)
> > |   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
> > `----
> > 
> > Then load org-contacts with
> > 
> >     (require 'org-contacts)
> 
> Yes, I already had this in .emacs (and obtained "No match")
> 
> > 
> > or similar, and try the eval again. I get nil as a result, but more
> > importantly, no error. Assuming that you get no error either, try the
> > agenda again.
> > 
> > Nick
> 
> I found out that the error happens due to either one of two reasons:
> 1) I have a :BIRTHDAY: tag which is <1970 or >2037
> 2) I have an empty :BIRTHDAY: tag
> Have you seen my link to stackoverflow above? I got help there and finally realized that it's linked to the problem discussed here (involving posts of you, too):
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206
> 

Glanced at it, but didn't go far enough to read about those problems.

> Is that solved? Will it be (automatically) solved if Emacs (for Mac) learns how to use the Mac's 64 bit architecture?
> 

Not sure.

Nick

> Cheers,
> 
> Marius
> 
>