Re: org-agenda-list (from git) giving "args-out-of-range error"

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

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:

> [please keep me CC'd, as I'm a digest subscriber on this list]
> 
> Suddenly "C-c a a" (`org-agenda-list') has started giving me this error:
> 
>    args-out-of-range #("  ots:        " 0 14 (org-category ...
> 
> Backtrace attached.  This is with today's bleeding edge Org Mode code,
> pulled from git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git.
> 
> I think the bug must be content-sensitive, since the only thing that
> changed was the content of some of my .org files (the ones listed in
> `org-agenda-files').  After encountering the bug, I upgraded to
> bleeding-edge org-mode, and saw that the bug reproduces there too.
> 
> I can't find much on the Net about this problem, though this expired
> StackOverflow question seems to be the same thing:
> 
>   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9460109/when-i-press-c-c-a-a-to-view-agenda-i-get-a-args-out-of-range-error
> 
> That question is gone from StackOverflow now, but Google's cache still
> has it:
> 
>   http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QsaNSsILOegJ:stackoverflow.com/questions/9460109/when-i-press-c-c-a-a-to-view-agenda-i-get-a-args-out-of-range-error+emacs+org-mode+agenda+%22args-out-of-range%22&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
> 
> There are also some reports of org agenda exports failing similarly, but
> I'm not doing an export.  And there's this, about how blank headlines
> cause a similar error:
> 
>   http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/46444
> 
> Oh, I just found this -- it might be relevant:
> 
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/41045/match=agenda+args+out+of+range
> 
> I'll see if I can reproduce what that person found.
> 
> Anyway, I can do Elisp debugging, and will start to do that unless
> someone here recognizes this problem and can add some information.
> 
> Backtrace attached below.
> 
> -Karl
> 
> (I had to rectangularly truncate this backtrace to avoid showing
> confidential information, sorry, but the call stack is there anyway.)
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range #("  ots:        " 0 14 (org-c
>   match-string(2 #("  ots:        " 0 14 (org-category "ots" tags nil org-highe
>   (org-get-todo-face (match-string 2 x))                                       
>   (list (quote face) (org-get-todo-face (match-string 2 x)))                   
>   (add-text-properties (or (match-end 1) (match-end 0)) (match-end 0) (list (qu
>   (progn (add-text-properties (or (match-end 1) (match-end 0)) (match-end 0) (l
>   (if (and re (equal (string-match (concat "\\(\\.*\\)" re "\\( +\\)") x (or pl
>   (when (and re (equal (string-match (concat "\\(\\.*\\)" re "\\( +\\)") x (or 
>   (let ((pl (text-property-any 0 (length x) (quote org-heading) t x))) (setq re
>   (if (eq x (quote line)) (save-excursion (beginning-of-line 1) (setq re (org-g
>   (let ((org-done-keywords org-done-keywords-for-agenda) (case-fold-search nil)
>   org-agenda-highlight-todo(#("  ots:        " 0 14 (org-category "ots" tags ni
>   mapcar(org-agenda-highlight-todo (#("  ots:        TODO  Karl to check in w/ 
>   (setq list (mapcar (quote org-agenda-highlight-todo) list))                  
>   org-finalize-agenda-entries((#("  ots:        TODO  Karl to check in w/ Ray n
>   (insert (org-finalize-agenda-entries (org-agenda-add-time-grid-maybe rtnall n
>   (if rtnall (insert (org-finalize-agenda-entries (org-agenda-add-time-grid-may
>   (progn (setq day-cnt (1+ day-cnt)) (insert (if (stringp org-agenda-format-dat
>   (if (or rtnall org-agenda-show-all-dates) (progn (setq day-cnt (1+ day-cnt)) 
>   (while (setq d (pop day-numbers)) (setq date (calendar-gregorian-from-absolut
>   (let* ((span (org-agenda-ndays-to-span (or span org-agenda-ndays org-agenda-s
>   org-agenda-list(nil)                                                         
>   call-interactively(org-agenda-list)                                          
>   (cond ((setq entry (assoc keys org-agenda-custom-commands)) (if (or (symbolp 
>   (let* ((prefix-descriptions nil) (org-agenda-window-setup (if (equal (buffer-
>   (catch (quote exit) (let* ((prefix-descriptions nil) (org-agenda-window-setup
>   org-agenda(nil)
>   call-interactively(org-agenda nil nil)

There have been a couple of recent reports on this problem (headlines
with just a timestamp cause this error) in addition to the ones you
found:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52621
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52786

The first one contains a diagnosis and a (possibly wrong) suggested fix.

Nick