Detlef Steuer wrote:
>Ok, here we go.

>I put
>(defmacro ignore-errors (&rest body)
>   "Execute BODY; if an error occurs, return nil.
>Otherwise, return result of last form in BODY."
>   `(condition-case nil (progn ,@body) (error nil)))

>in my .emacs as Carsten advised.
>This action seems to be a complicated form of do-nothing.
>At least my error message remains the same.
>(emacs was restarted after adding the macro to .emacs)

>>
>> I guess the next questions then have to be:
>>
>> 1. how have you installed org-mode?

>Nightly git checkout.

>>
>> 2. How are you loading it?
>>

>I inline my (ugly) .emacs as it stands.
>It is unchanged since ages.
>My guess is something goes wrong there.


Well, there is an error in .emacs:

>---- snip
>
> ...
>
>
>(custom-set-variables
>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>
> ...
>
> '(org-todo-keywords quote( '((sequence "TODO" "STARTED" "WAITING" | "DONE"))))
> ...

The "quote(" looks like a leftover of something.  The line should read:

'(org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "STARTED" "WAITING" | "DONE")))

Maybe fixing this does the job?

If the (defmacro is not working my guess what be that you are running
some kind of a mixup of probably old byte compiled code and the
current developement version.

Are there any old installations of Org arround?

 -- David
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