Re: Bug: [8.2.10 (8.2.10-1-g8b63dc-elpa @ /home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20141027/)]

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> It is not a gnus-problem alone as I also get the error report when
> opening some org-mode pages. 
>
> "For the last couple of days I have been unable to send any emails through
> gnus, or any followups to a newsgroup, because the buffer which should contain
> the headers of the message and my signature have been completely blank and
> empty, with just "Wrong type argument: stringp, 1" showing in the mini-buffer.
> On several of my org-mode files, when opening them I get this error message
> showing in the mini-buffer - "org-columns-compile-format: Wrong type argument:
> stringp, 1"."
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp 1)
>   string-match("%\\([0-9]+\\)?\\([[:alnum:]_-]+\\)\\(?:(\\([^)]+\\))\\)?\\(?:{\\([^}]+\\)}\\)?\\s-*" 1 0)
>   org-columns-compile-format(1)
>   org-columns-get-format(1)
>   org-columns(1)
>   (lambda nil (org-columns 1))()
>   run-hooks(change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook)
>   apply(run-hooks (change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook))
>   run-mode-hooks(org-mode-hook)
>   org-mode()
>   set-auto-mode-0(org-mode nil)
>   #[0 "\302\242\237\211\205.

Well, org-columns takes an optional string as argument, not an integer,
so whoever does (org-columns 1) is wrong, presumably one of the functions in
your org-mode-hook.

Nick