Re: error tangling: how to debug please?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

"Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> this did the trick.  However, interestingly, the error was a src block
> that ended with
>
> +end_src
>
> (somehow the "#" got deleted).  What's interesting is that org continued
> to see this as a src block.  I was having some unreproducible problems
> with the element cache which may have had something to do with this.

I recommend setting org-element--cache-self-verify to 'backtrace and
org-element--cache-self-verify-frequency to 1.0. Then, Org will
self-check the cache consistency and generate a backtrace when a problem
is detected.

> PS - is there a way to clear the cache completely prior to starting
> Emacs?

You can disable storing cache between Emacs sessions using
`org-element-cache-persistent'. Or you can simply delete
`org-persist-directory' before starting.

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