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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble09.plus.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Selection owner couldn’t convert: STRING
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 21:56:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmgleqo1.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmglama6.fsf@skimble09.plus.com>

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble09.plus.com> writes:

> I've found a problem with Imenu and org-mode, and the error report says -
>
> =====
> Selection owner couldn’t convert: STRING
> Error in menu-bar-update-hook (imenu-update-menubar): (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil)        
> =====

Are you able to reproduce starting from emacs -Q?
See https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html

> And its locking all of the menu-bar up such that nothing on it can be used!
>
> I've rebuilt emacs twice, which also included deleting my git repo of it, and re-downloading emacs from git and rebuilding. But its made no difference!        

Does it mean that you are using Emacs 29 (master branch)? Does the same
problem appear in Emacs 28?

> I've also re-downloading org-mode and rebuilt it, still with no solution!

Are you using main branch? bugfix? ELPA version?

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/.
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-27 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-27 12:44 Selection owner couldn’t convert: STRING Sharon Kimble
2022-08-27 13:56 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-08-28 13:32   ` Sharon Kimble
2022-08-29 12:16     ` Ihor Radchenko

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