Re: org-export raises stringp nil error

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

Assuming this is a recent regression, then if anyone from Org wants this
fixed in Emacs 24.3, they should investigate this very quickly and
suggest the _minimum_ change.

See also the possibly related, unanswered
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-03/msg00028.html

Lele Gaifax wrote:

> Using current emacs-snapshot[1], trying to export even the following
> very simple file:
>
>   # -*- mode: org; coding: utf-8 -*-
>
>   * hi
>
>     http://www.gnu.org/
>
> to HTML results in this error:
>
>   org-export-protect-sub-super: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>
> with the following traceback:
>
>   string-match("\\([^\\\\]\\)\\([_^]\\)" nil)
>   org-export-protect-sub-super(nil)
>   org-export-normalize-links()
>   org-export-preprocess-string(#("# -*- mode: org; coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n* hi\n\n  http://www.gnu.org/\n" 0 34 (fontified t font-lock-fontified t face font-lock-comment-face) 34 36 (fontified t) 36 38 (fontified t face org-level-1) 38 40 (fontified t face org-level-1) 40 44 (fontified t) 44 62 (fontified t org-no-flyspell t mouse-face highlight face org-link keymap (keymap (follow-link . mouse-face) (mouse-3 . org-find-file-at-mouse) (mouse-2 . org-open-at-mouse))) 62 63 (fontified t org-no-flyspell t mouse-face highlight face org-link keymap (keymap (follow-link . mouse-face) (mouse-3 . org-find-file-at-mouse) (mouse-2 . org-open-at-mouse)) rear-nonsticky (mouse-face highlight keymap invisible intangible help-echo org-linked-text htmlize-link)) 63 64 (fontified t)) :emph-multiline t :for-backend html :skip-before-1st-heading nil :drawers nil :todo-keywords t :tasks t :tags not-in-toc :priority nil :footnotes t :timestamps t :archived-trees headline :select-tags ("export") :exclude-tags ("noexport") :add-text nil :LaTeX-fragments t)
>   org-export-as-html(nil)
>   call-interactively(org-export-as-html)
>   org-export(nil)
>   call-interactively(org-export nil nil)
>   command-execute(org-export)
>
> If this isn't already known/fixed, should I report it as a bug? And
> eventually, on Emacs itself or on org-mode?
>
> thanks in advance,
> bye, lele.
>
> [1] GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2013-03-04 on dex, modified by Debian