Hello,
[This behavior appears in a previous and the following org versions: Org-mode version 8.2.6 (8.2.6-14-g063c8b-elpa @ /home/kosta/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20140505/)]
I recently began seeing weird behavior when trying to run `org-mobile-push' in an agenda buffer; It appears the files are indeed pushed, but at the end I get an error: "(wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)"
This only happens when I attempt to push from an agenda buffer - if I push in a regular org buffer, everything works.
The stack trace is:
org-agenda-filter-apply(nil category)
org-agenda-redo()
org-mobile-push()
where the `org-agenda-filter-apply' call is from this sexp in `org-agenda-redo':
(and (or cat-filter cat-preset) (org-agenda-filter-apply cat-filter 'category))
And cat-filter, cat-preset are set in a let* form higher up in org-agenda-redo as (their values are included):
(cat-filter org-agenda-category-filter)
nil
(cat-preset (get 'org-agenda-category-filter :preset-filter))
("+Academic")
When I start emacs or even look at the agenda,
(get 'org-agenda-category-filter :preset-filter) always evaluates to nil (up to the point where I eval `org-mobile-push'). It gets set in `org-mobile-create-sumo-agenda', which is called at some point from `org-mobile-push' before `org-agenda-redo'.
Apparently this started happening after I added the following custom agenda command:
("z" "All academic agenda items" alltodo ""
((org-agenda-overriding-header "Academic todos.")
(org-agenda-category-filter-preset
(quote
("+Academic")))
(org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels nil)))
Now, I have two questions/comments:
1. It appears that `org-agenda-filter-apply' expects an array, and an array always evaluates to togical t (As far as I remember, have just checked). If this is the case, in the following sexp (from `org-agenda-filter-apply'): (and (or cat-filter cat-preset) (org-agenda-filter-apply cat-filter 'category)) why is the (or cat-filter cat-preset)? It seems that either `cat-filter' is an array, in which case it is (possibly) valid to pass it to `org-agenda-filter-apply', or is nil, in which case it isn't. What role does cat-preset play here?
2. It appears to me that `org-mobile-create-sumo-agenda' does not work entirely correctly, as it leaves some properties set that were not set before it ran?
Ok, so after writing the last two questions, I looked into `org-agenda-filter-apply', and it appears that it expects a list of strings of the form "+cat" or "-cat", which is what `cat-preset' holds at this point.
Changing
(and (or cat-filter cat-preset) (org-agenda-filter-apply cat-filter 'category))
to
(and (or cat-filter cat-preset) (org-agenda-filter-apply (or cat-filter cat-preset) 'category))
as a check and reevaling the defun makes org-mobile-push complete with no errors even when ran from an agenda buffer. Note however:
1. There are several more similar lines in org-agenda-redo, which I suspect also need to be checked.
2. After org-mobile-push, a category filter is applied to the agenda buffer ("+Academic"), despite the original agenda buffer having no such filter, so it seems that something is broken in `org-mobile-create-sumo-agenda' regardless.
If what I wrote makes sense, let me know and I will submit a patch for `org-agenda-filter-apply', and if I figure out how to fix `org-mobile-create-sumo-agenda', for that as well.
Thanks,
Kosta