Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-04-26 Thread Bastien
Hi Nicolas and Eric, Eric S Fraga writes: > On Friday, 23 Mar 2018 at 23:42, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: >> A bit late, yet fixed. Thank you. > > Thank you! Works fine now. And I have increased confidence in my > sanity. ;-) Indeed, thanks for fixing this! Let's all increase our confidence in our

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 23 Mar 2018 at 23:42, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > A bit late, yet fixed. Thank you. Thank you! Works fine now. And I have increased confidence in my sanity. ;-) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.6-341-g3a4fd3 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-23 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Eric S Fraga writes: > On Thursday, 22 Mar 2018 at 14:28, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: >> I can reproduce the freeze on master. I will have a look at it whenever >> I get some spare time, i.e., hopefully this night. > > Thank you! Great to know I am not going completely mad ;-) A bit late, ye

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 22 Mar 2018 at 14:28, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > I can reproduce the freeze on master. I will have a look at it whenever > I get some spare time, i.e., hopefully this night. Thank you! Great to know I am not going completely mad ;-) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Bastien writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> Interestingly, although I have updated org and the log says that 8 hours >> ago you created the 9.1.8 release, the org version is still 9.1.6. > > I hate to suggest this, but could there be something wrong in your > installation? > >> In any ca

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 22 Mar 2018 at 12:23, Kaushal Modi wrote: > > Org is probably getting loaded before you tweak the load paths. e.g. emacs > -Q foo.org would do that. That version looks like the one that's on > emacs-26/master branch of Emacs. Thank you. What is the number after the 9.1.6- in the org

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Kaushal Modi
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 8:14 AM Eric S Fraga wrote: > > If I emacs -Q and make sure the load path points to the git version of > org, it doesn't work. When I do so, I have > > Org mode version 9.1.6 (release_9.1.6-341-g3a4fd3 @ > /home/ucecesf/git/org-mode/lisp/) > Org is probably getting loa

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 22 Mar 2018 at 10:43, Bastien wrote: > I hate to suggest this, but could there be something wrong in your > installation? Hi Bastien, don't hesitate at all to suggest this! There's always that possibility. :-( I don't think I have a mixed installation although I'm not sure how to v

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Bastien
Hi Eric, Eric S Fraga writes: > Interestingly, although I have updated org and the log says that 8 hours > ago you created the 9.1.8 release, the org version is still 9.1.6. I hate to suggest this, but could there be something wrong in your installation? > In any case, no worries as simply cha

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 22 Mar 2018 at 09:34, Bastien wrote: > Yes it works both with my configuration and with emacs -Q here, with > GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 51, i686-pc-linux-gnu) and Org mode version > 9.1.8. Very strange. Just tried with emacs -Q, org up to date from git, and it still doesn't work for m

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 22 Mar 2018 at 09:34, Bastien wrote: > Yes it works both with my configuration and with emacs -Q here, with > GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 51, i686-pc-linux-gnu) and Org mode version > 9.1.8. Interesting. So obviously something in my configuration. Sigh. I may be gone some time :-) Th

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-22 Thread Bastien
Hi Eric, thanks for the time you took for an example. Eric S Fraga writes: > I have not tried with emacs -Q. I will do so if this example works fine > for you. Yes it works both with my configuration and with emacs -Q here, with GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 51, i686-pc-linux-gnu) and Org mode ver

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 21 Mar 2018 at 02:06, Bastien wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> I have, until now, used a macro >> >> #+macro title The title of the document >> >> to be subsequently used in the actual #+title line, as in >> >> #+title: @@latex:...@@ {{{title}}} @@latex:...@@ >> >>

Re: [O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-20 Thread Bastien
Hi Eric, Eric S Fraga writes: > I have, until now, used a macro > > #+macro title The title of the document > > to be subsequently used in the actual #+title line, as in > > #+title: @@latex:...@@ {{{title}}} @@latex:...@@ > > (LaTeX details not important, I think.) just out of curiosity, I

[O] cautionary tale: avoid creating/using a macro called "title"

2018-03-14 Thread Eric S Fraga
Dear all, I have, until now, used a macro #+macro title The title of the document to be subsequently used in the actual #+title line, as in #+title: @@latex:...@@ {{{title}}} @@latex:...@@ (LaTeX details not important, I think.) but this now leads to a recursive evaluation of the line whe