On Apr 28, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Bastien wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> thanks very much for the detailed bug report.
> 
> Mike McLean <mike.mcl...@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> The general symptom is that if:
>> 
>>    You have org-update-all-dblocks added
>>    to org-export-first-hook with the goal of ensuring that dynamic
>>    blocks are current before every export; AND
>>    You are exporting only a region of the file, for example
>>    using C-c C-e 1 b (buffer/subtree export)
>> 
>> The Mark terminating the end of the region to be exported is carried
>> into the org-clocktable-write-default formatting function and the
>> call of (backward-delete-char 1) on line 2352 oforg-clock.el deletes
>> a region (between the Mark of the initial call and point, which is
>> immediately before the #+END: construct of the clock table). Deletion
>> of the #+END: construct malforms the clock table and ultimately the
>> export fails leaving the Org file is a corrupt state.
> 
> The trick is to use (let ((delete-active-region nil)) ...) so that 
> the active region is not deleted by such adjustments.

Interesting, I was going to play a bit today and try things like 
(save-excursion (deactivate-mark) … ) but didn't know if that was the right 
approach or not. The delete-active-region sure seems simpler :)

> I pushed a fix.

Thank you


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