Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8036948/how-to-set-up-birthdays-with-org-contacts-error-bad-sexp On 2011-11-06, at 12:05 , Marius Hofert wrote: How can I set up anniversaries with org-contact? My agend.org file contains the following, as mentioned on the bottom of http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html #+STARTUP: showeverything * Birthdays %%(org-contacts-anniversaries) My contacts.org file contains (e.g.): * My contact :my.tag: :PROPERTIES: :EMAIL: my.cont...@my.address.org :URL: :WORK: :HOME: :MOBILE: :LOCATION: :BIRTHDAY: 2000-01-01 :NOTE: :END: When I access agenda view via C-c a a, I obtain: Bad sexp at line 3 in /Users/myusername/org/agenda.org: (org-contacts-anniversaries) [7 times] Note that line three corresponds to %%(org-contacts-anniversaries) Cheers, Marius
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch wrote: see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8036948/how-to-set-up-birthdays-with-org-contacts-error-bad-sexp On 2011-11-06, at 12:05 , Marius Hofert wrote: How can I set up anniversaries with org-contact? My agend.org file contains the following, as mentioned on the bottom of http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html #+STARTUP: showeverything * Birthdays %%(org-contacts-anniversaries) My contacts.org file contains (e.g.): * My contact :my.tag: :PROPERTIES: :EMAIL: my.cont...@my.address.org :URL: :WORK: :HOME: :MOBILE: :LOCATION: :BIRTHDAY: 2000-01-01 :NOTE: :END: When I access agenda view via C-c a a, I obtain: Bad sexp at line 3 in /Users/myusername/org/agenda.org: (org-contacts-anniversaries) [7 times] Note that line three corresponds to %%(org-contacts-anniversaries) The org sexp handler issues this message whenever an error is signalled when trying to evaluate the sexp. In this case (as in most of these cases), the error is probably because org-contacts-anniversaries is not defined, for whatever reason. Try to eval (org-contacts-anniversaries) manually - what do you get? I get , | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function org-contacts-anniversaries) | (org-contacts-anniversaries) | eval((org-contacts-anniversaries) nil) | eval-last-sexp-1(nil) | eval-last-sexp(nil) | call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) ` Then load org-contacts with (require 'org-contacts) or similar, and try the eval again. I get nil as a result, but more importantly, no error. Assuming that you get no error either, try the agenda again. Nick
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
The org sexp handler issues this message whenever an error is signalled when trying to evaluate the sexp. In this case (as in most of these cases), the error is probably because org-contacts-anniversaries is not defined, for whatever reason. Try to eval (org-contacts-anniversaries) manually - what do you get? I get via M-x org-contacts-anniversaries? I get No match , | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function org-contacts-anniversaries) | (org-contacts-anniversaries) | eval((org-contacts-anniversaries) nil) | eval-last-sexp-1(nil) | eval-last-sexp(nil) | call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) ` Then load org-contacts with (require 'org-contacts) Yes, I already had this in .emacs (and obtained No match) or similar, and try the eval again. I get nil as a result, but more importantly, no error. Assuming that you get no error either, try the agenda again. Nick I found out that the error happens due to either one of two reasons: 1) I have a :BIRTHDAY: tag which is 1970 or 2037 2) I have an empty :BIRTHDAY: tag Have you seen my link to stackoverflow above? I got help there and finally realized that it's linked to the problem discussed here (involving posts of you, too): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206 Is that solved? Will it be (automatically) solved if Emacs (for Mac) learns how to use the Mac's 64 bit architecture? Cheers, Marius
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch wrote: The org sexp handler issues this message whenever an error is signalled when trying to evaluate the sexp. In this case (as in most of these cases), the error is probably because org-contacts-anniversaries is not defined, for whatever reason. Try to eval (org-contacts-anniversaries) manually - what do you get? I get via M-x org-contacts-anniversaries? I get No match No, via ESC ESC : (org-contacts-anniversaries) RET or similar. M-x foo requires that foo is a command (aka an interactive function): org-contacts-anniversaries is not. , | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function org-contacts-anniversaries) | (org-contacts-anniversaries) | eval((org-contacts-anniversaries) nil) | eval-last-sexp-1(nil) | eval-last-sexp(nil) | call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) ` Then load org-contacts with (require 'org-contacts) Yes, I already had this in .emacs (and obtained No match) or similar, and try the eval again. I get nil as a result, but more importantly, no error. Assuming that you get no error either, try the agenda again. Nick I found out that the error happens due to either one of two reasons: 1) I have a :BIRTHDAY: tag which is 1970 or 2037 2) I have an empty :BIRTHDAY: tag Have you seen my link to stackoverflow above? I got help there and finally realized that it's linked to the problem discussed here (involving posts of you, too): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206 Glanced at it, but didn't go far enough to read about those problems. Is that solved? Will it be (automatically) solved if Emacs (for Mac) learns how to use the Mac's 64 bit architecture? Not sure. Nick Cheers, Marius
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Okay, ESC ESC : (org-contacts-anniversaries) gives: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) diary-anniversary(10 25 1970) apply(diary-anniversary (10 25 1970)) (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) (if (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) (progn (push (format-spec format (\` ((108 \, (org-with-point-at ... ...)) (104 \, (car contact)) (121 \, (- ... ...)) (89 \, (let ... ...) --cl-var--))) (while (consp --cl-var--) (setq contact (car --cl-var--)) (setq anniv (let ((anniv (cdr (assoc-string (or field org-contacts-birthday-property) (caddr contact) (when anniv (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (org-time-string-to-absolute anniv) (if (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) (progn (push (format-spec format (\` ((108 \, ...) (104 \, ...) (121 \, ...) (89 \, ... --cl-var--))) (setq --cl-var-- (cdr --cl-var--))) (let* ((--cl-var-- (org-contacts-filter)) (contact nil) (anniv nil) (--cl-var-- nil)) (while (consp --cl-var--) (setq contact (car --cl-var--)) (setq anniv (let ((anniv (cdr (assoc-string ... ... (when anniv (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (org-time-string-to-absolute anniv) (if (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) (progn (push (format-spec format (\` (... ... ... ...))) --cl-var--))) (setq --cl-var-- (cdr --cl-var--))) (nreverse --cl-var--)) (catch (quote --cl-block-nil--) (let* ((--cl-var-- (org-contacts-filter)) (contact nil) (anniv nil) (--cl-var-- nil)) (while (consp --cl-var--) (setq contact (car --cl-var--)) (setq anniv (let ((anniv (cdr ...))) (when anniv (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (org-time-string-to-absolute anniv) (if (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) (progn (push (format-spec format (\` ...)) --cl-var--))) (setq --cl-var-- (cdr --cl-var--))) (nreverse --cl-var--))) (cl-block-wrapper (catch (quote --cl-block-nil--) (let* ((--cl-var-- (org-contacts-filter)) (contact nil) (anniv nil) (--cl-var-- nil)) (while (consp --cl-var--) (setq contact (car --cl-var--)) (setq anniv (let ((anniv ...)) (when anniv (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute ... (if (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) (progn (push (format-spec format ...) --cl-var--))) (setq --cl-var-- (cdr --cl-var--))) (nreverse --cl-var-- (block nil (let* ((--cl-var-- (org-contacts-filter)) (contact nil) (anniv nil) (--cl-var-- nil)) (while (consp --cl-var--) (setq contact (car --cl-var--)) (setq anniv (let ((anniv (cdr ...))) (when anniv (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (org-time-string-to-absolute anniv) (if (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) (progn (push (format-spec format (\` ...)) --cl-var--))) (setq --cl-var-- (cdr --cl-var--))) (nreverse --cl-var--))) (loop for contact in (org-contacts-filter) for anniv = (let ((anniv (cdr (assoc-string (or field org-contacts-birthday-property) (caddr contact) (when anniv (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (org-time-string-to-absolute anniv if (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) collect (format-spec format (\` ((108 \, (org-with-point-at (cadr contact) (org-store-link nil))) (104 \, (car contact)) (121 \, (- (calendar-extract-year date) (calendar-extract-year anniv))) (89 \, (let ((years ...)) (format %d%s years (diary-ordinal-suffix years (let ((calendar-date-style (quote american)) (entry )) (unless format (setq format org-contacts-birthday-format)) (loop for contact in (org-contacts-filter) for anniv = (let ((anniv (cdr (assoc-string (or field org-contacts-birthday-property) (caddr contact) (when anniv (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (org-time-string-to-absolute anniv if (and anniv (apply (quote diary-anniversary) anniv)) collect (format-spec format (\` ((108 \, (org-with-point-at (cadr contact) (org-store-link nil))) (104 \, (car contact)) (121 \, (- (calendar-extract-year date) (calendar-extract-year anniv))) (89 \, (let (...) (format %d%s years ... org-contacts-anniversaries() eval((org-contacts-anniversaries) nil) eval-expression((org-contacts-anniversaries) nil) call-interactively(eval-expression nil nil)
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) There is a universal solution to this problem M-x load-library RET diary TAB and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them in turn. Note that in the above load-library you are using diary because it is the prefix of function (or variable) which reported as void. The load-library call unvoids the void things.
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Thanks for the explanation. Is there also an equivalent solution by just adjusting .emacs? On 2011-11-08, at 23:33 , Jambunathan K wrote: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) There is a universal solution to this problem M-x load-library RET diary TAB and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them in turn. Note that in the above load-library you are using diary because it is the prefix of function (or variable) which reported as void. The load-library call unvoids the void things.
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch wrote: Okay, ESC ESC : (org-contacts-anniversaries) gives: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) So you need to load diary.el and associated stuff: (require 'diary) is probably enough.
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch writes: Thanks for the explanation. Is there also an equivalent solution by just adjusting .emacs? C-h r g Init Examples Hint: search for load Helpful tip: Learn to use Emacs Info system well. On 2011-11-08, at 23:33 , Jambunathan K wrote: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) There is a universal solution to this problem M-x load-library RET diary TAB and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them in turn. Note that in the above load-library you are using diary because it is the prefix of function (or variable) which reported as void. The load-library call unvoids the void things. --
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Is there also an equivalent solution by just adjusting .emacs? If you are going to use emacs extensively, you probably should read the emacs reference manual and maybe the emacs lisp introduction as well. M-x foo RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating (foo) which is a call to function foo. (foo) is the more general mechanism: it works for any lisp function, M-x foo works iff foo is a command (aka an interactive function). The form (foo) can be added to .emacs. load-library is a command that takes an argument: the name of the library to load. See its doc string for details. M-x load-library RET diary RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating (load-library diary) This calls the function load-library with the string argument diary. This form can be added to .emacs. Alternatively, you can use the require form that I posted: (require 'diary) Note that load-library takes a string as argument, whereas require takes a symbol. Nick On 2011-11-08, at 23:33 , Jambunathan K wrote: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) There is a universal solution to this problem M-x load-library RET diary TAB and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them in turn. Note that in the above load-library you are using diary because it is the prefix of function (or variable) which reported as void. The load-library call unvoids the void things.
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
On 2011-11-08, at 23:33 , Jambunathan K wrote: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) There is a universal solution to this problem M-x load-library RET diary TAB and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them in turn. I have: 1) diary-lib 2) diary-loaddefs I chose the first one. After that, I could define a :BIRTHDAY: with year 1970 and it correctly showed up in the agenda view! Seems to work! :-) Thanks a lot, Marius Note that in the above load-library you are using diary because it is the prefix of function (or variable) which reported as void. The load-library call unvoids the void things.
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
On 2011-11-09, at 00:06 , Nick Dokos wrote: Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Is there also an equivalent solution by just adjusting .emacs? If you are going to use emacs extensively, you probably should read the emacs reference manual and maybe the emacs lisp introduction as well. M-x foo RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating (foo) which is a call to function foo. (foo) is the more general mechanism: it works for any lisp function, M-x foo works iff foo is a command (aka an interactive function). The form (foo) can be added to .emacs. load-library is a command that takes an argument: the name of the library to load. See its doc string for details. M-x load-library RET diary RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating (load-library diary) This calls the function load-library with the string argument diary. This form can be added to .emacs. Alternatively, you can use the require form that I posted: (require 'diary) I obtain (also for (load-library diary) ): File error: Cannot open load file, diary I assume I'm missing some diary.el (?). I'm wondering why diary is needed anyway? Julien does not specifically mention it: http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html Cheers, Marius Note that load-library takes a string as argument, whereas require takes a symbol. Nick On 2011-11-08, at 23:33 , Jambunathan K wrote: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) There is a universal solution to this problem M-x load-library RET diary TAB and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them in turn. Note that in the above load-library you are using diary because it is the prefix of function (or variable) which reported as void. The load-library call unvoids the void things.
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Okay, I assume it's (require 'diary-lib) then. On 2011-11-09, at 00:13 , Marius Hofert wrote: On 2011-11-09, at 00:06 , Nick Dokos wrote: Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Is there also an equivalent solution by just adjusting .emacs? If you are going to use emacs extensively, you probably should read the emacs reference manual and maybe the emacs lisp introduction as well. M-x foo RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating (foo) which is a call to function foo. (foo) is the more general mechanism: it works for any lisp function, M-x foo works iff foo is a command (aka an interactive function). The form (foo) can be added to .emacs. load-library is a command that takes an argument: the name of the library to load. See its doc string for details. M-x load-library RET diary RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating (load-library diary) This calls the function load-library with the string argument diary. This form can be added to .emacs. Alternatively, you can use the require form that I posted: (require 'diary) I obtain (also for (load-library diary) ): File error: Cannot open load file, diary I assume I'm missing some diary.el (?). I'm wondering why diary is needed anyway? Julien does not specifically mention it: http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html Cheers, Marius Note that load-library takes a string as argument, whereas require takes a symbol. Nick On 2011-11-08, at 23:33 , Jambunathan K wrote: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) There is a universal solution to this problem M-x load-library RET diary TAB and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them in turn. Note that in the above load-library you are using diary because it is the prefix of function (or variable) which reported as void. The load-library call unvoids the void things. ETH Zurich Dr. Marius Hofert RiskLab, Department of Mathematics HG E 65.2 Rämistrasse 101 8092 Zurich Switzerland Phone +41 44 632 2423 marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch http://www.math.ethz.ch/~hofertj
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch wrote: (load-library diary) This calls the function load-library with the string argument diary. This form can be added to .emacs. Alternatively, you can use the require form that I posted: (require 'diary) I obtain (also for (load-library diary) ): File error: Cannot open load file, diary I assume I'm missing some diary.el (?). Nope, I'm wrong: diary-anniversary is in diary-lib, so the correct form is (load-library diary-lib) or (require 'diary-lib)
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
(load-library diary) This calls the function load-library with the string argument diary. This form can be added to .emacs. Alternatively, you can use the require form that I posted: (require 'diary) I obtain (also for (load-library diary) ): File error: Cannot open load file, diary I assume I'm missing some diary.el (?). Nope, I'm wrong: diary-anniversary is in diary-lib, so the correct form is (load-library diary-lib) or (require 'diary-lib) okay, that's also what I tried and it worked. However, I still see the Bad sexp... error when there is a BIRTHDAY tag *without* date, so just a line containing :BIRTHDAY: But that's of course not a big issue.
Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
:BIRTHDAY: without any date is an invalid date for the sexp. org-contacts-anniversaries loops through all valid contacts (headlines with an :EMAIL: property) for any that contain the :BIRTHDAY: property (by default, this can be customized). When there is no date associated the value is nil. (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (org-time-string-to-absolute anniv)) Where anniv is the date retrieved from :BIRTHDAY:. nil is not a valid date, so the expression fails, giving you a bad sexp. On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Marius Hofert marius.hof...@math.ethz.chwrote: (load-library diary) This calls the function load-library with the string argument diary. This form can be added to .emacs. Alternatively, you can use the require form that I posted: (require 'diary) I obtain (also for (load-library diary) ): File error: Cannot open load file, diary I assume I'm missing some diary.el (?). Nope, I'm wrong: diary-anniversary is in diary-lib, so the correct form is (load-library diary-lib) or (require 'diary-lib) okay, that's also what I tried and it worked. However, I still see the Bad sexp... error when there is a BIRTHDAY tag *without* date, so just a line containing :BIRTHDAY: But that's of course not a big issue.
[O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?
How can I set up anniversaries with org-contact? My agend.org file contains the following, as mentioned on the bottom of http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html #+STARTUP: showeverything * Birthdays %%(org-contacts-anniversaries) My contacts.org file contains (e.g.): * My contact :my.tag: :PROPERTIES: :EMAIL: my.cont...@my.address.org :URL: :WORK: :HOME: :MOBILE: :LOCATION: :BIRTHDAY: 2000-01-01 :NOTE: :END: When I access agenda view via C-c a a, I obtain: Bad sexp at line 3 in /Users/myusername/org/agenda.org: (org-contacts-anniversaries) [7 times] Note that line three corresponds to %%(org-contacts-anniversaries) Cheers, Marius
