timeclock-out broken?

timeclock-out broken?

[ASH JAMES]

I am using emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-27 on buffy on
Windows 2000.

When I attempt to M-x timeclock-out I am prompted for the reason for
clocking out. It will not accept anything that is typed there:
Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil.

I've tried setting the function that is called to nil, but that is not
accepted by customize.

Is this a known problem?  Anyone have a fix.

Any help is appreciated!
James Ash

Re: timeclock-out broken?

[Glenn Morris]

ASH JAMES wrote:

> I am using emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-27 on buffy on
> Windows 2000.
>
> When I attempt to M-x timeclock-out I am prompted for the reason for
> clocking out. It will not accept anything that is typed there:
> Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil.
[...]
> Is this a known problem?  Anyone have a fix.

Yes, it's fixed in the Emacs CVS. Maybe you can get away with just
updating timeclock.el, though that might not work in isolation.

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/calendar/timeclock.el

IIRC it's something to do with timeclock-discrepancy being nil.

Timeclock-out broken??

[ASH, JAMES (SBCSI)]

I was hoping I could replace timeclock.el and rename timeclock.elc out of
the way and this would work. But I still have my problem.  I'm new to emacs
-- is this the wrong approach??
Thanks in advance!
ASH JAMES wrote:

> I am using emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-27 on buffy on
> Windows 2000.
>
> When I attempt to M-x timeclock-out I am prompted for the reason for
> clocking out. It will not accept anything that is typed there:
> Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil.
[...]
> Is this a known problem? Anyone have a fix.

Yes, it's fixed in the Emacs CVS. Maybe you can get away with just
updating timeclock.el, though that might not work in isolation.

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/calendar/timeclock.
el
<http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/calendar/timeclock
.el> 

IIRC it's something to do with timeclock-discrepancy being nil.

Re: Timeclock-out broken??

[Glenn Morris]

"ASH, JAMES (SBCSI)" wrote:

> I was hoping I could replace timeclock.el and rename timeclock.elc
> out of the way and this would work. But I still have my problem. I'm
> new to emacs -- is this the wrong approach??

That ought to work, provided you restart Emacs after doing it (or you
can try M-x unload-feature timeclock). You can use M-x
byte-compile-file in Emacs to compile a new version of timeclock.elc
from the updated timeclock.el.

Re: Timeclock-out broken??

[James Ash]

This worked after I byte-compiled.

Thanks!

"Glenn Morris" <gmorris+news@ast.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:8rllsxg4ig.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk...
>
> "ASH, JAMES (SBCSI)" wrote:
>
> > I was hoping I could replace timeclock.el and rename timeclock.elc
> > out of the way and this would work. But I still have my problem. I'm
> > new to emacs -- is this the wrong approach??
>
> That ought to work, provided you restart Emacs after doing it (or you
> can try M-x unload-feature timeclock). You can use M-x
> byte-compile-file in Emacs to compile a new version of timeclock.elc
> from the updated timeclock.el.