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Re: [O] org-goto-local-search-headings usage?
From: |
Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: [O] org-goto-local-search-headings usage? |
Date: |
Tue, 15 May 2012 17:33:13 -0400 |
Myles English <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 15 May 2012 11:48:55 -0400, Nick Dokos said:
>
> > Myles English <address@hidden> 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?
>
No, but there are missing stack frames: it fails on the search-backward
that org-goto-local-search-headings does. In the best "let's cure the
symptom, not the disease" manner, try changing the point-min to
point-max in the definition of gtd.
Nick