agenda problem or my set up is a problem?

agenda problem or my set up is a problem?

[Charles]

I just did a clean org mode install (twice)

* Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @ 
c:/cygwin/home/Charlie/elisp/Org-Mode/lisp/)
* emacs GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN

emacs on windows 7, home premium

org on cywin 1.7.20

I call the agenda dispatcher; however when I attempt to call an agenda 
command the following error is returned

Wrong type argument: sequencep, newline:

Charlie Millar

Re: agenda problem or my set up is a problem?

[Noorul Islam K M]

Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:

> I just did a clean org mode install (twice)
>
> * Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @
> c:/cygwin/home/Charlie/elisp/Org-Mode/lisp/)
> * emacs GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
>
> emacs on windows 7, home premium
>
> org on cywin 1.7.20
>
> I call the agenda dispatcher; however when I attempt to call an agenda command
> the following error is returned
>
> Wrong type argument: sequencep, newline:
>

No issues here with 

Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @ /home/noorul/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/)
GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2013-03-11 on noman

Can you send a trace back?

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

Re: agenda problem or my set up is a problem?

[Noorul Islam K M]

Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:

> Noorul,
>
> On 7/8/2013 8:36 AM, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>> Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
>>
>>> I just did a clean org mode install (twice)
>>>
>>> * Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @
>>> c:/cygwin/home/Charlie/elisp/Org-Mode/lisp/)
>>> * emacs GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
>>>
>>> emacs on windows 7, home premium
>>>
>>> org on cywin 1.7.20
>>>
>>> I call the agenda dispatcher; however when I attempt to call an agenda command
>>> the following error is returned
>>>
>>> Wrong type argument: sequencep, newline:
>>>
>>
>> No issues here with
>>
>> Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @ /home/noorul/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/)
>> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>>   of 2013-03-11 on noman
>>
>> Can you send a trace back?
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Noorul
>>
>
> I'll have to try the trace later. I forgot to mention that until this morning
> org worked as advertised with my set up. It was not until I attempted to update
> that the problem surfaced. That is why I did a clean install.
>

Ok, good.

> I have also discovered that capture no longer works - the same error is
> returned. The same is true for attempts to change the TODO states.
>
> Could there be a CR/LF "mix up" in the most recent commit that effects a windows
> set up.
>

This could be windows specific issue. 

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

Re: agenda problem or my set up is a problem?

[Charles]

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Noorul,

On 7/8/2013 9:54 AM, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
> Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
>
>> Noorul,
>>
>> On 7/8/2013 8:36 AM, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>>> Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> I just did a clean org mode install (twice)
>>>>
>>>> * Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @
>>>> c:/cygwin/home/Charlie/elisp/Org-Mode/lisp/)
>>>> * emacs GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
>>>>
>>>> emacs on windows 7, home premium
>>>>
>>>> org on cywin 1.7.20
>>>>
>>>> I call the agenda dispatcher; however when I attempt to call an agenda command
>>>> the following error is returned
>>>>
>>>> Wrong type argument: sequencep, newline:
>>>>
>>>
>>> No issues here with
>>>
>>> Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @ /home/noorul/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/)
>>> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>>>    of 2013-03-11 on noman
>>>
>>> Can you send a trace back?
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards
>>> Noorul
>>>
>>
>> I'll have to try the trace later. I forgot to mention that until this morning
>> org worked as advertised with my set up. It was not until I attempted to update
>> that the problem surfaced. That is why I did a clean install.
>>
>
> Ok, good.
>
>> I have also discovered that capture no longer works - the same error is
>> returned. The same is true for attempts to change the TODO states.
>>
>> Could there be a CR/LF "mix up" in the most recent commit that effects a windows
>> set up.
>>
>
> This could be windows specific issue.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Noorul

I ran M-x debug-on-entry for org-agenda-list and org-todo-list. Attached 
are the backtraces.

Thanks,
Charlie

[-- Attachment #2: org-agenda-list-backtrace --]
[-- Type: application/octet-stream, Size: 3122 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #3: org-todo-list-backtrace --]
[-- Type: application/octet-stream, Size: 3118 bytes --]

Re: agenda problem or my set up is a problem?

[Noorul Islam K M]

Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:

> Noorul,
>
> On 7/8/2013 9:54 AM, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>> Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
>>
>>> Noorul,
>>>
>>> On 7/8/2013 8:36 AM, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>>>> Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I just did a clean org mode install (twice)
>>>>>
>>>>> * Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @
>>>>> c:/cygwin/home/Charlie/elisp/Org-Mode/lisp/)
>>>>> * emacs GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
>>>>>
>>>>> emacs on windows 7, home premium
>>>>>
>>>>> org on cywin 1.7.20
>>>>>
>>>>> I call the agenda dispatcher; however when I attempt to call an agenda command
>>>>> the following error is returned
>>>>>
>>>>> Wrong type argument: sequencep, newline:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No issues here with
>>>>
>>>> Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @ /home/noorul/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/)
>>>> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>>>>    of 2013-03-11 on noman
>>>>
>>>> Can you send a trace back?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>> Noorul
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'll have to try the trace later. I forgot to mention that until this morning
>>> org worked as advertised with my set up. It was not until I attempted to update
>>> that the problem surfaced. That is why I did a clean install.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, good.
>>
>>> I have also discovered that capture no longer works - the same error is
>>> returned. The same is true for attempts to change the TODO states.
>>>
>>> Could there be a CR/LF "mix up" in the most recent commit that effects a windows
>>> set up.
>>>
>>
>> This could be windows specific issue.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Noorul
>
> I ran M-x debug-on-entry for org-agenda-list and org-todo-list. Attached are the
> backtraces.
>

I think the attachment is not an error trace back. You need to do M-: (setq
debug-on-error t) and execute the command. You are supposed to get a
traceback. Please post the same.

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

Re: agenda problem or my set up is a problem?

[Nick Dokos]

Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com> writes:

> Charles <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
>
>>
>> I ran M-x debug-on-entry for org-agenda-list and org-todo-list. Attached are the
>> backtraces.
>>
>
> I think the attachment is not an error trace back. You need to do M-: (setq
> debug-on-error t) and execute the command. You are supposed to get a
> traceback. Please post the same.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Noorul
>
>

It would also help if Charles ran uncompiled code - see the "How to
create a useful backtrace" subsection of section 1.4, "Feedback" in
the manual.
-- 
Nick

Re: agenda problem or my set up is a problem?

[Charles]

Noorul, Nick and others,

On 7/8/2013 8:00 AM, Charles wrote:
> I just did a clean org mode install (twice)
>
> * Org-mode version 8.0.5 (release_8.0.5-318-gfdaa99 @
> c:/cygwin/home/Charlie/elisp/Org-Mode/lisp/)
> * emacs GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
>
> emacs on windows 7, home premium
>
> org on cywin 1.7.20
>
> I call the agenda dispatcher; however when I attempt to call an agenda
> command the following error is returned
>
> Wrong type argument: sequencep, newline:
>

Thank you for your replies and guidance.

I suddenly realized that the :newline was part of my tag set-up in my 
init.el. I removed all references to newline and the agenda commands now 
work.

I now have to figure out why (:newline . nil) no longer works, at least 
for me. For the past two or three years I had my tag groups as
(setq org-tag-alist '(
	(:startgroup . nil) ("aaaa" . ?a) ("bbbb" . ?b) (:endgroup . nil) 
(:newline . nil)
	(:startgroup . nil) ("cccc" . ?c) ("dddd" . ?d) (:endgroup . nil)))

I'll check the mailing list etc. to see if I missed some discussion 
concerning this.

Charlie