Re: org-contacts bug when completing tags in gnus

[tory_anderson@byu.edu (Tory S. Anderson)]

Yeah, I dodge around these sort of problems a lot with 
org-contacts. It is in need of a curator and probably a rewritten 
version; it also doesn't play nice with Helm. I haven't tried it 
with org 9.0 yet, though. 

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm giving org-contacts a try, and I'm having an error when I'm 
> trying
> to complete a tag (something should be a sequence but it's a 
> number).
> Digging a little into it, it seems that the problem is during
> hilighting, where a fontified string is returned by 
> all-completions
> instead of a list (in `completion-pcm--all-completions' in 
> minibuffer.el),
> which then make `completion-hilit-commonality' fail because it 
> expects a
> list. I'm only seeing this problem with org-contacts, so I'm 
> wondering
> if it might be the reason for this problem in emacs code.
>
> My contacts file looks like this:
>
> * Test 
> :test:
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EMAIL: alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org
> :END:
>
> To reproduce, save this in some path/contacts.org file, do the 
> following
>
>   (require 'org-contacts)
>   (org-contacts-gnus-insinuate)
>   (setq org-contacts-files (list "path/contacts.org"))
>   
> then start an email in gnus, in the To field write +, then hit 
> TAB.
>
> I'm using org-mode 9 and emacs 25.1.1. Is this a known problem 
> with
> them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan