Re: Invalid read syntax: "?" when switching org-dates or when tying to org-submit-bug-report

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

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Hello,

michael.ziems@xiron.de writes:

> when i try to swicht an active timestamp via org-shitright or when i
> fire M-x org-submit-bug-report i get the following error: 
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "?")
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil
> "c:/Users/sane/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170502/org-clock.el"
> nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 72111
>  
> load-with-code-conversion("c:/Users/sane/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170502/org-clock.el"
> "c:/Users/sane/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170502/org-clock.el"
> nil t)
>   require(org-clock)
>   mapc(require (org-agenda org-archive org-attach org-clock org-colview
> org-id org-table org-timer))
>   org-require-autoloaded-modules()
>   org-submit-bug-report()
>   call-interactively(org-submit-bug-report record nil)
>   command-execute(org-submit-bug-report record)
>   execute-extended-command(nil "org-submit-bug-report")
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) 
>
> I tried to do the same with Edebug on, but somehow it looks fine
> there.

Would the attached patch fix your issue?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

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From 144c4ba61ba325f682088ba8501dccb3e20dbc8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 11:08:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] org-clock: Disambiguate character syntax

* lisp/org-clock.el (org-clock-put-overlay): Escape character in
  character syntax.
---
 lisp/org-clock.el | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/org-clock.el b/lisp/org-clock.el
index 462eda682..ea1ead47d 100644
--- a/lisp/org-clock.el
+++ b/lisp/org-clock.el
@@ -1967,7 +1967,8 @@ will be easy to remove."
 			 (make-string
 			  (max 0 (- (- 60 (current-column))
 				    (- (match-end 4) (match-beginning 4))
-				    (length (org-get-at-bol 'line-prefix)))) ?·)
+				    (length (org-get-at-bol 'line-prefix))))
+			  ?\·)
 			 '(face shadow))
 		     (org-add-props
 			 (format " %9s " (org-duration-from-minutes time))
-- 
2.12.2