bug#73251: 29.4; org-refile-get-targets wrong-type-argument

[Serghei Iakovlev <lists@serghei.pl>]

Please remove this bug report and refer to bug#73250 instead.  This
one was created by mistake because I initially thought the previous
report had not been submitted.

I would suggest, if I may, that in the future an automatic response
like, "Please do not submit a duplicate bug report if you don’t see
the confirmation right away.  It may take some time, sometimes even a
full business day, for your report to be published," would be
helpful.  Without such an auto-reply, it's really unclear what
happens to my bug report.

Serghei Iakovlev <lists@serghei.pl> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I encountered an issue with `org-mode' in my Emacs configuration
> related to periodic clearing of the refile cache during idle time.  I
> am using the following code snippet, which runs during idle time to
> clear the cache of refile targets:
>
> (run-with-idle-timer 600 t (lambda ()
>                              (require 'org-refile)
>                              (org-refile-cache-clear)
>                              (org-refile-get-targets)))
>
>
> As far as I can tell, the code is syntactically and semantically
> correct.  However, it doesn't seem to work as expected and triggers
> an error.  After enabling `toggle-debug-on-error', I found the
> following error message in the morning:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>   looking-at(nil)
>   org-refile-get-targets()
>   (closure (t) nil (require 'org-refile) (org-refile-cache-clear) (org-refile-get-targets))()
>   apply((closure (t) nil (require 'org-refile) (org-refile-cache-clear) (org-refile-get-targets)) nil)
>   timer-event-handler([t 0 600 0 t (closure (t) nil (require 'org-refile) (org-refile-cache-clear) (org-refile-get-targets)) nil idle 0 nil])
>
> However, when I manually execute the `org-refile-get-targets' function,
> it works without any issues.  Unfortunately, I cannot provide a more
> reproducible scenario beyond what I've described here.
>
> For further investigation, I am attaching links to my complete Emacs
> configuration in the hope that it might help.  These are permalinks
> to the specific commit reflecting the state of my configuration at
> the time of the error:
>
> init.el:
> https://github.com/sergeyklay/.emacs.d/blob/01f971ea2e5e21dc20ac468799c55099ae9ae230/init.el
>
> early-init.el
> https://github.com/sergeyklay/.emacs.d/blob/01f971ea2e5e21dc20ac468799c55099ae9ae230/early-init.el
>
>
>                     Serghei
>
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-- 
Serghei Iakovlev