Re: org-goto-local-search-headings usage?

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

Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> On Tue, 15 May 2012 11:48:55 -0400, Nick Dokos said:
> 
>   > Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> wrote:
>   >> 
>   >> Hi,
>   >> 
>   >> Can anyone see what I am doing wrong here?  I just want to open a file
>   >> ~/tmp/gtd.org and goto the heading "* My workflow".  So, starting like
>   >> this:
>   >> 
>   >> emacs -Q -l ~/tmp/gtd
>   >> 
>   >> with ~/tmp/gtd:
>   >> 
>   >> (add-to-list 'load-path
>   >> "~/.emacs.d/plugins/org-mode/lisp")
>   >> (require 'org-install) ;; to use the emacs-org-mode rather than the one
>   >> ;; installed with emacs
>   >> 
>   >> (defun gtd()
>   >> (interactive)
>   >> (find-file "~/tmp/gtd.org")
>   >> (goto-char (point-min))
>   >> (setq wf "My workflow")
>   >> (org-goto-local-search-headings wf nil nil)
>   >> )
>   >> 
>   >> and ~/tmp/gtd.org:
>   >> 
>   >> * My workflow
>   >> 
>   >> then I do:
>   >> 
>   >> M-x gtd
>   >> 
>   >> and get the message:
>   >> 
>   >> byte-code: Search failed: "My workflow"
>   >> 
> 
>   > Works for me: the cursor is placed at the end of the headline.
>   > I tried both with just the one headline and also with half a 
>   > dozen.
> 
> Thanks for taking a look Nick.  My real usage also uses a much bigger
> file and sometimes it works when the .emacs file is open or if I have
> been working in the gtd.org file but I haven't been able to track down
> when it works or doesn't.  Hence this MWE.
> 
>   > Maybe M-x toggle-debug-on-error and try again to get a backtrace?
>   > Or add
> 
>   >    (setq debug-on-error t)
> 
>   > to your initialization file.
> 
> Adding (setq debug-on-error t) to the top of the file gtd then
> proceeding as before gives me the *Backtrace*:
> 
>   org-goto-local-search-headings("My workflow" nil nil)
>   gtd()
>   call-interactively(gtd t nil)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
> 
> which doesn't even really look like an error, does it?
> 

No, but there are missing stack frames: it fails on the search-backward
that org-goto-local-search-headings does. In the best "let's cure the
symptom, not the disease" manner, try changing the point-min to
point-max in the definition of gtd.

Nick