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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-set-property giving error (8.2.10)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:56:07 -0400
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"Stephen J. Barr" <stevejb@uw.edu> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> When trying to insert a property using org-set-property on one of my large org-mode files, I get the message:
>
> org-read-property-name: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil
>
> However, when I start a brand new org-mode file, it works. I assume that this is breaking because I have some incorrect syntax
> somewhere. Is there a way to find out where this is?
>

org-lint maybe - but afaik it's still on a branch "wip-lint", so you'll
have to play git games to be able to access it. And you need a fairly
modern emacs (24.3 perhaps?) for the lexical binding stuff.

See the original announcement and the resulting thread starting at

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/96989

Nick