"Loris Bennett" <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> writes: > Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> writes: > >> Loris Bennett writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running >>> >>> Org mode version 9.4.4 (9.4.4-25-g3a522a-elpaplus @ >>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210222/) >>> >>> and today I encountered the following error when refiling >>> >>> org-refile: Invalid function: org-preserve-local-variables >>> >>> Despite the error, the refiling itself did however work. >>> >>> I am fairly sure that I have refiled without seeing this error message >>> since I last updated Org, thus I am somewhat surprised by it. >> >> org-preserve-local-variables is a macro defined in org-macs.el. That >> file is loaded by org.el, which is loaded by org-refile.el. So, I think >> everything looks fine there. >> >> My guess---especially if you're running Emacs 26 or lower, which ships >> with an Org that didn't yet have org-preserve-local-variables---is that >> you have a mixed installation. list-load-path-shadows might reveal the >> problem. >> >> https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mixed-install > > Thanks for the information and the suggestions. > > I am running 26.1. The Org version is > > Org mode version 9.4.4 (9.4.4-25-g3a522a-elpaplus @ > /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210222/) > > list-load-path-shadows lots of lines like > > /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210222/ox-md hides > /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20210222/ox-md > > where elpa/org-plus-contrib hides elpa/org, and lots of lines like > > /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210222/ox-md hides > /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/org/ox-md > > where elpa/org-plus-contrib hides Org from the OS. > > Having both org and org-plus-contrib installed from ELPA has always > bothered me a bit, but I seem to remember that certainly at some point > several years ago, there was an issue (to do with dependencies? or > use-package?) which meant I had some problems with org-plus-contrib on > its own. Maybe that was wrong back then and maybe is still wrong now. > > However, duckduckgoing a bit I find the following issue > > https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/597 > > from a few years back. Maybe that's what I was hitting. I'll change > make my set-up to just use org-plus-contrib and see whether I can > reproduce the org-preserve-local-variables error.
I have removed 'org' and now list-load-path-shadows just shows the Elpa Org hiding the version installed with Emacs in the OS (Debian 10) plus the following /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rst hides /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/textmodes/rst but that doesn't look like anything to worry about. However, I am still getting org-refile: Invalid function: org-preserve-local-variables when I refile, although the refiling works. Any ideas where else I could look? Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.
