Should I be able to find org-property-set-functions-alist listed in org.el?
Because I don't, maybe I have an issue, it says 7.4 in the comments at the
top of the file but I am not finding that phrase anywhere in the file, maybe
I do have an pull, update or patch issue I need to look into?
Matthew
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Matthew Sauer
<improv.philoso...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I am aware of the issue of emacs (that comes with cygwin) coming with I
> think it was org 6.3 and I have already (prior to this) cloned a branch,
> made my own branch so I could modify the makefile to have the org files land
> in the correct location to load (it kept loading 6.3 and not 7.4). I double
> checked (org-version) and I am definitely on 7.4 (when I was on 6.3 I had to
> use remember as Capture wasn't in the release? and now I have switched over
> to capture now and love it). I do regular pulls from the git as explained
> in the instructions (part of me is loving working in/on a growing updating
> project).
>
> It is loading from the correct spot and I opened the .el version of the
> .elc and it says 7.4 and if I load the .el or the .elc org-version shows
> 7.4.
>
> I know about needing to clean up the emacs, I originally started using
> org-mode from an episode of FLOSS weekly and didn't come to orgmode.org,
> worg or this mailing list as my first stop to learn how to update my .emacs
> and make things work. I am going to work on it some more and make sure I
> have tidied up everything I need to do and then I am going to try reloading
> org-contacts, I think I have something floating around somewhere that is
> keeping me from loading it correctly.
>
> Thanks for the feedback and hopefully I can get this knocked out, I am
> trying to migrate more and more of my stuff to working in emacs as it and
> org-mode speak to the way my brain functions. Hopefully, I will have an
> update soon as it still doesn't work but I want to weed through my .emacs
> before re-submitting everything. However, if anyone reads through my .emacs
> and sees an error or something I should look at, I would greatly appreciate
> it. You guys are amazing, hopefully in a few months I can start
> contributing more to this project.
>
> Matthew
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote:
>
>> U-SWEETSAUERPORT\\Matthew Sauer <improv.philoso...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ,----
>> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable
>> org-property-set-functions-alist)
>> | add-to-list(org-property-set-functions-alist ("BIRTHDAY" .
>> org-completing-read-date))
>> | eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil
>> "/elisp/org-contacts/org-contacts.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position
>> 12430
>> | load-with-code-conversion("/elisp/org-contacts/org-contacts.el"
>> "/elisp/org-contacts/org-contacts.el" nil t)
>> | require(org-contacts)
>> `----
>>
>> org-property-set-functions-alist is a variable in org.el, so it seems
>> you are loading org-contacts.el before loading org.el (and the autoloads
>> in your .emacs seem to confirm that).
>>
>> Problems:
>>
>> o org-contacts requires a recent version (> 7.4) of org. The version
>> that came with your emacs is not going to cut it.
>>
>> o you are probably loading the version of org that came with your emacs.
>> To check, say M-x locate-library <RET> org <RET> and see where it loads
>> org.el (or org.elc) from.
>>
>> o if you are using the built-in version, download the version from git (if
>> you have not already) and follow the instructions in section 1.2,
>> "Installation", of the Org manual to install it.
>>
>> And please clean up your .emacs: the autoload section that goes
>>
>> ,----
>> | ;; These lines only if org-mode is not part of the X/Emacs distribution.
>> | (autoload 'org-mode "org" "Org mode" t)
>> | (autoload 'org-diary "org" "Diary entries from Org mode" t)
>> | (autoload 'org-agenda "org" "Multi-file agenda from Org mode" t)
>> | (autoload 'org-store-link "org" "Store a link to the current location"
>> t)
>> | (autoload 'orgtbl-mode "org" "Org tables as a minor mode" t)
>> | (autoload 'turn-on-orgtbl "org" "Org tables as a minor mode")
>> `----
>>
>> should be *replaced* by what the doc says. Don't leave it hanging around.
>>
>> If you still have problems, submit another problem report (btw, the
>> information you included in this one was spot-on: both the .emacs and
>> the backtrace were needed for diagnosis).
>>
>> HTH,
>> Nick
>>
>>
>
