Cannot insert column - wrong type argument

Cannot insert column - wrong type argument

[Gez]

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I'm having problems configuring the column view in a particular file  - I can't insert/add a column.  

I can navigate around it, and S-M-<left> works fine, but S-M-<right> brings up the message "Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil"

In a newly created test file S-M-<right> worked fine - prompts for a property. I don't know if it's relevant but in the problematic file, when I use C-c C-x C-c to create the column view, no #+COLUMNS line appears.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot it?

Gez (beginner, GNU Emacs 23.2.1, Org-mode version 7.01trans)

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Re: Cannot insert column - wrong type argument

[Giovanni Ridolfi]

"Gez" <register@geekanddiva.com> writes:

Hi, Gez, 

> I'm having problems configuring 

what do you intend with "configuring"?

> the column view in 
> a particular file  - I can't insert/add a column.  
`S-M-<right>'
     Insert a new column, to the left of the current column.

I cannot reproduce:
Org version 7.01trans , commit	9ec705cb57b77595dd9aeb17f9168fb1db9ac908.


Sample file:
-------------------
     -*- mode: org; -*-
* [2010-09-29 mer] column view
:PROPERTIES:
:COLUMNS: %25ITEM(Number) 
:END:
** one
:PROPERTIES:
:Value: 100
:Age: 11
:END: 
** two
:PROPERTIES:
:Value: 200
:Age: 22
:END: 
-------------

1.  C-c C-x C-c  shows the column view with the "Number column"
2.  M-S-<right>  asks for the property of the new column
2.1        write "Age" (without " ")
3.  You'll have a two columns column view

Giovanni

Re: FIXED - Cannot insert column - wrong type argument

[Gez]

Thanks, Giovanni, but I fixed it before using your sample file.  I went 
through my file with a fine-tooth comb and found a tag on a line beginning 
"PROPERTIES".  (At least I think it was that line -  it could have been the 
line below with the property value in it.  Whichever it was, it wasn't on a 
headline.)

When I removed the tag and reloaded the file, the column commands all worked 
fine.

I'm assuming that was the cause, but I was surprised though since there had 
been no error message.

Gez

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giovanni Ridolfi" <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>
To: "Gez" <register@geekanddiva.com>
Cc: <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Cannot insert column - wrong type argument


> "Gez" <register@geekanddiva.com> writes:
>
> Hi, Gez,
>
>> I'm having problems configuring
>
> what do you intend with "configuring"?
>
>> the column view in
>> a particular file  - I can't insert/add a column.
> `S-M-<right>'
>     Insert a new column, to the left of the current column.
>
> I cannot reproduce:
> Org version 7.01trans , commit 9ec705cb57b77595dd9aeb17f9168fb1db9ac908.
>
>
> Sample file:
> -------------------
>     -*- mode: org; -*-
> * [2010-09-29 mer] column view
> :PROPERTIES:
> :COLUMNS: %25ITEM(Number)
> :END:
> ** one
> :PROPERTIES:
> :Value: 100
> :Age: 11
> :END:
> ** two
> :PROPERTIES:
> :Value: 200
> :Age: 22
> :END:
> -------------
>
> 1.  C-c C-x C-c  shows the column view with the "Number column"
> 2.  M-S-<right>  asks for the property of the new column
> 2.1        write "Age" (without " ")
> 3.  You'll have a two columns column view
>
> Giovanni
>
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