Re: Problem when org-capturing text from French email

[David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>]

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Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>Hello,

>Here a trace of the problem that occurs when I capture some text from an
>email, for archive purpose.

>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 35 42)
>  format("%.30s" #("Re: Gestionnaire de r\x00e9visions pour \x00e9\ diteur LaTeX sous Windows" 20 29 (charset iso-8859-15) 35 42 (charset iso-8859-15)))
>  org-replace-escapes("Email from %f: %.30s" (("%c") ("%F" . #("Denis Bitouz\x00e9 <dbitouze.no@spam.wanadoo.fr>" 6 13 ...)) ("%f" . "Denis Bitouz\x00e9") ("%T") ("%t" . "?") ("%s" . #("Re: Gestionnaire de r\x00e9visions pour \x00e9\ diteur LaTeX sous Windows" 20 29 ... 35 42 ...)) ("%m" . "20100715150256.4f029e84@drums")))
>  org-email-link-description()
>  org-gnus-store-link()
>  run-hook-with-args-until-success(org-gnus-store-link)
>  org-store-link(nil)
>  org-capture(nil)
>  call-interactively(org-capture nil nil)
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>I guess it's somehow related to the accents in the mail title?  Not sure I
>understand the details of the trace, but the capture works in many other
>cases, so the accents could be the differentiating factor (I don't have enough
>history, yet, to assert this).

Your message's user agent tells me, that you use Emacs 23.1 -- and
this looks like Emacs bug #5306[1].

The Attached patch avoids this bug by removing all text properties from
the subject (the same is done in org-wl.el).

HTH,
  -- David

[1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=
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From 2b253d742ad584a0cf8fb5f9c4e413e2456f662b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:02:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove text properties of subject to avoid Emacs bug #3506

* org-gnus.el (org-gnus-store-link): Remove text properties of subject
to avoid Emacs bug #3506.
---
 lisp/org-gnus.el |   20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/org-gnus.el b/lisp/org-gnus.el
index a41de2e..e135563 100644
--- a/lisp/org-gnus.el
+++ b/lisp/org-gnus.el
@@ -120,22 +120,26 @@ If `org-store-link' was called with a prefix arg the meaning of
 
    ((memq major-mode '(gnus-summary-mode gnus-article-mode))
     (let* ((group gnus-newsgroup-name)
-   	   (header (with-current-buffer gnus-summary-buffer
+	   (header (with-current-buffer gnus-summary-buffer
 		     (gnus-summary-article-header)))
 	   (from (mail-header-from header))
 	   (message-id (org-remove-angle-brackets (mail-header-id header)))
 	   (date (mail-header-date header))
 	   (subject (mail-header-subject header))
-           (to (cdr (assq 'To (mail-header-extra header))))
-           newsgroups x-no-archive desc link)
+	   (to (cdr (assq 'To (mail-header-extra header))))
+	   newsgroups x-no-archive desc link)
+      ;; Remove text properties of subject string to avoid Emacs bug
+      ;; #3506
+      (set-text-properties 0 (length subject) nil subject)
+
       ;; Fetching an article is an expensive operation; newsgroup and
       ;; x-no-archive are only needed for web links.
       (when (org-xor current-prefix-arg org-gnus-prefer-web-links)
-        ;; Make sure the original article buffer is up-to-date
-        (save-window-excursion (gnus-summary-select-article))
-        (setq to (or to (gnus-fetch-original-field "To"))
-              newsgroups (gnus-fetch-original-field "Newsgroups")
-              x-no-archive (gnus-fetch-original-field "x-no-archive")))
+	;; Make sure the original article buffer is up-to-date
+	(save-window-excursion (gnus-summary-select-article))
+	(setq to (or to (gnus-fetch-original-field "To"))
+	      newsgroups (gnus-fetch-original-field "Newsgroups")
+	      x-no-archive (gnus-fetch-original-field "x-no-archive")))
       (org-store-link-props :type "gnus" :from from :subject subject
 			    :message-id message-id :group group :to to)
       (setq desc (org-email-link-description)
-- 
1.7.1


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