From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: void variable error in function diary-anniversary Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:58:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <47c16b80-c229-07b8-b787-9ed4d69b2404@gmail.com> <51030225-2859-15eb-abf5-c2f492377b88@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513864613 1023 195.159.176.226 (21 Dec 2017 13:56:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:56:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 21 14:56:49 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eS1L3-0008EI-DU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eS1N1-0004XP-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:58:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50127) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eS1Mc-0004XI-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eS1MZ-0005us-NP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41169 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eS1MZ-0005te-Gi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:58:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eS1KX-00061e-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:56:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fokqa7crfuZkD1hZdMNcpq2uR8s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115423 Archived-At: > And here is the edebug backtrace (check out the FIXME): This is not a backtrace :-( But to get back to the original problem: > I have: > ```org > * test anniversary > %%(diary-anniversary 12 8 2007) > ``` > When I execute [M-: (diary-anniversary 12 8 2007) RET], I got error: > Symbol's value as variable is void: date Do you only get this error in your M-: use case (which is normal), or do you also see it when you use that in your diary file? > I'm using latest Emacs version from `master` branch. If it's a new problem that was not present in earlier versions of Emacs, then please, please, pretty please, `M-x report-emacs-bug`. Stefan