strange bug using emacs -nw and org.mode

strange bug using emacs -nw and org.mode

[Richard Riley]

In my org-files I have diary.org. In it I have

* Anniversaries
#+CATEGORY: Anniv
%%(org-bbdb-anniversaries)

When I start emacs 22 X there are no problems and birthdays are
correctly listed in my agenda when the anniversary field is present in a
bbdb record . However when I start "emacs -nw" from a terminal I get:

Bad sexp at line 6 in /home/rgr/.emacs.d/org-files/diary.org:
(org-bbdb-anniversaries) [6 times] 

They both use the same init files. There are no differences in the load
sequence (the error pops up well before any window system specific
loads).

Anyone have any idea what this might be about or can advise me on how
best to debug it? "emacs -nw --debug-on-error" doesn't trigger anything.

Re: strange bug using emacs -nw and org.mode

[Thomas Baumann]

Hi Richard,

could you please send "not working" example files for this behaviour.
Please also take a close look at the coding systems, they might be
different on X and in the terminal.

Things seem to be fine with emacs 23 although the umlauts are not coded
correctly.

Thomas

Re: strange bug using emacs -nw and org.mode

[Richard Riley]

Hi Thomas,

I believe the bug has been fixed - I reported a use case to Carsten and
he has fixed it in GIT.

I enclose it below FYI:

,----
| Hi Carsten,
| 
| 
| I can not be 100% the following is what fixed a bad startup problem but
| it might have.
| 
| I recently had a "bad sexp" error at start from org-bbdb-anniversaries
| in my diary.org file.
| 
| Funnily enough it only happened in emacs -nw (terminal mode),
| 
| In the start up for this terminal mode I selectively did NOT start
| icicles.
| 
| Another issue caused me to dump icicles for ido-mode.
| 
| Suddenly I got the same sexp error in emacs-x too.
| 
| Anyway, finally I simply
| 
| "(require 'bbdb)"
| 
| before (org-install) and it works.
| 
| Somehow, somewhere I can only assume icicles loaded bbdb before I loaded
| org.
| 
| I have gnus on an autoload and so if its not already loaded then bbdb is
| not there.
| 
| The solution was simple : 
| 
| I would suggest a (require 'bbdb) line in org-bbdb. It helped me.
| 
| regards
| 
| r.
`----




Thomas Baumann <dtbaumann@yahoo.de> writes:

> Hi Richard,
>
> could you please send "not working" example files for this behaviour.
> Please also take a close look at the coding systems, they might be
> different on X and in the terminal.
>
> Things seem to be fine with emacs 23 although the umlauts are not coded
> correctly.
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
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