Re: Only on my computer, Invalid function: org-with-silent-modifications

[Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>]

That is the strange thing, Cask does not load org when it does its work.

So, the error occurred not in that scenario.
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have no idea if it relates to what you describe with cask and
> dependencies, but I had the same error and found several old threads stating
> that it's caused by installing org when it's already initialized.
>
> I solved it by Emacs -q and reinstalling from elpa. If you search for the
> old threads there was a link to documentation that explains why this occurs
> which may be of some help addressing with cask.
>
> On Jun 17, 2014 3:38 PM, "Grant Rettke" <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> wrote:
>>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> Just upgraded to 8.2.7 and was surprised to get the
>> "org-with-silent-modifications" error. Here is what happened.
>>
>> The first time that I set up my Emacs libraries, using Cask, which
>> uses the Emacs package manager, it install org2blog which has org
>> 8.2.6 as a dependency. Then, Cask installed org-plus-contrib 8.2.6 and
>> life went on. Then I can cask update to get the 8.2.7 release (Cask
>> just pulls from the org repo).
>>
>> Started up Emacs and got that aforementioned error. The issue seemed
>> to revolve around load-path or
>> load-order, and I didn't understand any further than that. It was very
>> strange because my whole approach
>> had been to automate everything so it would "just work".
>>
>> Poking around, I eventually saw that org2blog depends on "org" (yes
>> now I admit that I didn't know this when
>> at first, but that is not relevant here I believe). That just didn't
>> look right to have both orgs in there, so I deleted plain old "org"
>> and commented out the org2blog load. Now Emacs works again.
>>
>> The issue seems to be that org-plus-contrib doesn't satisfy "org" from
>> a package manager perspective.
>>
>> This surprised me because the former is a superset.
>>
>> My next step now is to figure out what to do from a package
>> perspective, because I would like to keep
>> org2blog in there.
>>
>> Anyone else encountered this and want to share the solution?
>>
>> I'm going to think about this some more and see.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi
>> gcr@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
>> “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates
>> ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x)))
>> “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop
>> taking it seriously.” --Thompson
>>
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