orgmode-contacts "wrong type arguments"

orgmode-contacts "wrong type arguments"

[Tory S. Anderson]

Presumably this is related to my having upgraded to:
Org-mode version 8.2.10 (8.2.10-33-g880a2b-elpa)
GNU Emacs 25.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9) of 2015-02-10 on localhost.localdomain

I use org-contacts[1] to autofill addresses in GNUs. Normally can use "+CATEGORY" to add all names in a category; but now that particular functionality seems to be broken (although the package is otherwise functional). In my efforts to improve my elisp, can anyone tell me why the code doesn't work, and what might have changed to cause it to break?

Error: 
completion-in-region: Wrong type argument: listp, #("NAME <address@gmail.com>, NAME <address@aol.com>, NAME <address@gmail.com>, NAME <address@gatech.edu>" 0 15 (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 44 65 (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 88 99 (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 127 141 (fontified nil org-category "contacts"))

Footnotes: 
[1]  https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts

Re: orgmode-contacts "wrong type arguments"

[Alexis]

On 2015-02-17T00:17:59+1100, Tory S. Anderson said:
 
 TSA> In my efforts to improve my elisp, can anyone tell me why 
 the code TSA> doesn't work, and what might have changed to cause 
 it to break?

 TSA> Error: completion-in-region: Wrong type argument: listp, 
 #("NAME TSA> <address@gmail.com>, NAME <address@aol.com>, NAME 
 TSA> <address@gmail.com>, NAME <address@gatech.edu>" 0 15 
 (fontified TSA> nil org-category "contacts") 44 65 (fontified nil 
 org-category TSA> "contacts") 88 99 (fontified nil org-category 
 "contacts") 127 TSA> 141 (fontified nil org-category "contacts"))

It looks like something in `completion-in-region` wanted a plain 
old list of items, but instead got a propertized string. For 
further information, check out section "31.19.2, Changing Text 
Properties" of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual - in particular, 
the entry for the `propertize` function.


Alexis.

Re: orgmode-contacts "wrong type arguments"

[Nick Dokos]

torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> Presumably this is related to my having upgraded to:
> Org-mode version 8.2.10 (8.2.10-33-g880a2b-elpa)
> GNU Emacs 25.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9) of 2015-02-10 on localhost.localdomain
>
> I use org-contacts[1] to autofill addresses in GNUs. Normally can use
> "+CATEGORY" to add all names in a category; but now that particular
> functionality seems to be broken (although the package is otherwise
> functional). In my efforts to improve my elisp, can anyone tell me why
> the code doesn't work, and what might have changed to cause it to
> break?
>
> Error: 
> completion-in-region: Wrong type argument: listp, #("NAME
> <address@gmail.com>, NAME <address@aol.com>, NAME <address@gmail.com>,
> NAME <address@gatech.edu>" 0 15 (fontified nil org-category
> "contacts") 44 65 (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 88 99
> (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 127 141 (fontified nil
> org-category "contacts"))
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts
>

When you get an error, the first thing you should do is get a backtrace:

   (info "(org) Feeback") 

It's far more likely that you can find the error (or somebody can find
it for you) with a backtrace in hand.
-- 
Nick

Re: orgmode-contacts "wrong type arguments"

[Tory S. Anderson]

Thanks Nick for the tip; I've recently learned about debug-on-entry, which I attempted to use to no avail last night, but the functions listed in the info manual you cited are useful. Following them I have found that the problem seems to be a conflict bewteen Org-Contacts and Helm; loading without helm enabled fixes the problem. Unfortunately, this seems like a lose-lose tradeoff to disable helm or go without mailing list functionality. I'm open to any suggestions, now that I know that a Helm conflict is apparently causing the listp error. 

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> Presumably this is related to my having upgraded to:
>> Org-mode version 8.2.10 (8.2.10-33-g880a2b-elpa)
>> GNU Emacs 25.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9) of 2015-02-10 on localhost.localdomain
>>
>> I use org-contacts[1] to autofill addresses in GNUs. Normally can use
>> "+CATEGORY" to add all names in a category; but now that particular
>> functionality seems to be broken (although the package is otherwise
>> functional). In my efforts to improve my elisp, can anyone tell me why
>> the code doesn't work, and what might have changed to cause it to
>> break?
>>
>> Error: 
>> completion-in-region: Wrong type argument: listp, #("NAME
>> <address@gmail.com>, NAME <address@aol.com>, NAME <address@gmail.com>,
>> NAME <address@gatech.edu>" 0 15 (fontified nil org-category
>> "contacts") 44 65 (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 88 99
>> (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 127 141 (fontified nil
>> org-category "contacts"))
>>
>> Footnotes: 
>> [1]  https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts
>>
>
> When you get an error, the first thing you should do is get a backtrace:
>
>    (info "(org) Feeback") 
>
> It's far more likely that you can find the error (or somebody can find
> it for you) with a backtrace in hand.