Re: emacs 23.1 crash on small org file (org-version 6.36)

[Fritz Kunze <fkunze@gmail.com>]

Jan Böcker <jan.boecker <at> jboecker.de> writes:

> 
> On 05/21/2010 01:43 AM, Fritz Kunze wrote:
> > MY TASKS -*- mode: org; fill-column: 78; after-save-hook:
> > (archive-done-tasks)   -*-
> 
> If my understanding is correct, archive-done-tasks is evaluated when the
> file is loaded, which I guess is not your intention. (You want to set
> after-save-hook to '(archive-done-tasks), not to the result of
> evaluating (archive-done-tasks)).
> 
> I can imagine that this causes the crash (maybe org has not been fully
> initialized for that buffer at this point?).
> 
> Try quoting (archive-done-tasks) like this:
> 
> MY TASKS -*- mode: org; fill-column: 78; after-save-hook:
> '(archive-done-tasks)   -*-
> 
> HTH, Jan
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May 21, 2010
Hi Jan,
  Thanks for offering a response. I inserted the quote, and sadly, emacs still 
crashes.  

  The code you referred to, I copied verbatim from a note from John Weigley 
(see: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/3629). I've been working my 
way through John Weigley's wonderful tutorial 
(http://www.newartisans.com/2007/08/using-org-mode-as-a-day-planner.html), and 
learning by studying his (amazingly good) lisp code.  That code, along with 
using John's set up, has worked perfectly.  I had a very large list of todos and 
was happily figuring things out, when suddenly emacs began to consistently 
crash.  At first I thought it was the archiving stuff and turned it off, but it 
did not affect the crashing.  Through trial and error, I reduced the file size 
to the one I sent out.  Strangely, changing just a few characters in this file 
(say in the note part), allows emacs to continue working again.

So I remain stumped.
Regards,
Fritz