bug#14586: 23.3; void-variable calendar-view-diary-initially-flag

bug#14586: 23.3; void-variable calendar-view-diary-initially-flag

[Mike Kupfer]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':

1. visit an org-mode file.
2. insert a date (C-c ! RET)
3. M-x calendar RET

This gives me (from *Messages*):

calendar: Symbol's value as variable is void: calendar-view-diary-initially-flag

If I have debug-on-error enabled, I get

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable calendar-view-diary-initially-flag)
  calendar-basic-setup(nil)
  calendar(nil)
  call-interactively(calendar t nil)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)

This is with the stock Emacs that comes with Ubuntu 12.04.

In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-09-21 on batsu, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.3/leim' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Calendar

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f t m p / f o o 1 . o r g <return> <tab> <escape> 
> C-c ! s <return> <return> C-x C-s <escape> x c a 
l e n d a r <return> <escape> x r e p o r t - <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
OVERVIEW
SUBTREE (NO CHILDREN)
Mark set
Saving file /home/kupfer/tmp/foo1.org...
Wrote /home/kupfer/tmp/foo1.org
calendar: Symbol's value as variable is void: calendar-view-diary-initially-flag

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/textmodes/ispell
/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/textmodes/flyspell

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec
password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231
rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc
mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util
hashcash mail-utils emacsbug mule-util cal-move regexp-opt cal-menu
calendar cal-loaddefs parse-time org-wl org-w3m org-vm org-rmail org-mhe
org-mew org-irc org-jsinfo org-infojs org-html org-exp org-exp-blocks
org-agenda org-info org-gnus org-bibtex org-bbdb org byte-opt warnings
bytecomp byte-compile advice help-fns advice-preload org-footnote
org-src org-list org-faces org-compat org-macs easymenu time-date
noutline outline easy-mmode tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe
lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham
georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic
indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple
abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties
overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
system-font-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

bug#14586: 23.3; void-variable calendar-view-diary-initially-flag

[Glenn Morris]

Version: 24.1

Mike Kupfer wrote:

> 1. visit an org-mode file.
> 2. insert a date (C-c ! RET)
> 3. M-x calendar RET
>
> This gives me (from *Messages*):
>
> calendar: Symbol's value as variable is void: calendar-view-diary-initially-flag
[...]
> This is with the stock Emacs that comes with Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)

Thanks for the report. This was fixed in Emacs 24.1.
Please upgrade (latest is 24.3) and/or encourage your distribution to do so.
You can work around the problem by simply using (require 'calendar)
before using Org.