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From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-goto-local-search-headings usage?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 22:09:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87havhp2w9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4409.1337096935@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 15 May 2012 11:48:55 -0400")

>> On Tue, 15 May 2012 11:48:55 -0400, Nick Dokos said:

  > Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> wrote:
  >> 
  >> Hi,
  >> 
  >> Can anyone see what I am doing wrong here?  I just want to open a file
  >> ~/tmp/gtd.org and goto the heading "* My workflow".  So, starting like
  >> this:
  >> 
  >> emacs -Q -l ~/tmp/gtd
  >> 
  >> with ~/tmp/gtd:
  >> 
  >> (add-to-list 'load-path
  >> "~/.emacs.d/plugins/org-mode/lisp")
  >> (require 'org-install) ;; to use the emacs-org-mode rather than the one
  >> ;; installed with emacs
  >> 
  >> (defun gtd()
  >> (interactive)
  >> (find-file "~/tmp/gtd.org")
  >> (goto-char (point-min))
  >> (setq wf "My workflow")
  >> (org-goto-local-search-headings wf nil nil)
  >> )
  >> 
  >> and ~/tmp/gtd.org:
  >> 
  >> * My workflow
  >> 
  >> then I do:
  >> 
  >> M-x gtd
  >> 
  >> and get the message:
  >> 
  >> byte-code: Search failed: "My workflow"
  >> 

  > Works for me: the cursor is placed at the end of the headline.
  > I tried both with just the one headline and also with half a 
  > dozen.

Thanks for taking a look Nick.  My real usage also uses a much bigger
file and sometimes it works when the .emacs file is open or if I have
been working in the gtd.org file but I haven't been able to track down
when it works or doesn't.  Hence this MWE.

  > Maybe M-x toggle-debug-on-error and try again to get a backtrace?
  > Or add

  >    (setq debug-on-error t)

  > to your initialization file.

Adding (setq debug-on-error t) to the top of the file gtd then
proceeding as before gives me the *Backtrace*:

  org-goto-local-search-headings("My workflow" nil nil)
  gtd()
  call-interactively(gtd t nil)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)

which doesn't even really look like an error, does it?

-- 
  `--[ Myles ]

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-15 15:28 org-goto-local-search-headings usage? Myles English
2012-05-15 15:48 ` Nick Dokos
2012-05-15 21:09   ` Myles English [this message]
2012-05-15 21:33     ` Nick Dokos
2012-05-15 21:44       ` Nick Dokos
2012-05-16 10:30         ` Myles English
2012-05-16 14:56           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-16 20:37             ` Myles English

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