Re: [O] orgmode-contacts "wrong type arguments"

[Nick Dokos]

address@hidden (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> Presumably this is related to my having upgraded to:
> Org-mode version 8.2.10 (8.2.10-33-g880a2b-elpa)
> GNU Emacs 25.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9) of 
> 2015-02-10 on localhost.localdomain
>
> I use org-contacts[1] to autofill addresses in GNUs. Normally can use
> "+CATEGORY" to add all names in a category; but now that particular
> functionality seems to be broken (although the package is otherwise
> functional). In my efforts to improve my elisp, can anyone tell me why
> the code doesn't work, and what might have changed to cause it to
> break?
>
> Error: 
> completion-in-region: Wrong type argument: listp, #("NAME
> <address@hidden>, NAME <address@hidden>, NAME <address@hidden>,
> NAME <address@hidden>" 0 15 (fontified nil org-category
> "contacts") 44 65 (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 88 99
> (fontified nil org-category "contacts") 127 141 (fontified nil
> org-category "contacts"))
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts
>

When you get an error, the first thing you should do is get a backtrace:

   (info "(org) Feeback") 

It's far more likely that you can find the error (or somebody can find
it for you) with a backtrace in hand.
-- 
Nick