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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: [feature request] more informative error message when calling an
 undefined src block
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:26:25 +0100
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Hello,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I have been trying to track down a nil link on export [1].  I have been
> bisecting a long document.  As part of this, I commented out a src block
> used elsewhere in the document.  The error trace [abridged] I get upon
> export is:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument consp nil)
>   org-babel-exp-code(nil lob)
>   org-babel-exp-do-export(nil lob)
>   org-babel-exp-process-buffer()
>   org-export-as(latex nil nil nil (:output-file "t.tex"))
>   
> which was luckily just enough for me to figure out what I had done but I
> think it could be more informative?  E.g. it would be nice if it said
> which code it tried to invoke?
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  related problem: "Unable to resolve link: nil" is not very
> informative either and it's driving me crazy!  I've not yet tracked down
> what the problem is but it has something to do with using my own labels
> for tables.  More later when I figure it out.

Could you provide an ECM?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou