Re: sexp timestamp causing agenda compilation issues as of 8517be79b5c1

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

Hi Kyle,

Kyle Machulis <kyle@nonpolynomial.com> writes:

> As of commit 8517be79b5c1fe165d23ea65ad70a282e9c595bb (bisected to
> find this), agenda compilation died with the following backtrace for
> me:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Bad timestamp `'
> Error was: (Not a standard Org-mode time string: )")
>   signal(error ("Bad timestamp `'\nError was: (Not a standard Org-mode
> time string: )"))
>   error("Bad timestamp `%s'%s\nError was: %s" "" "" ("Not a standard
> Org-mode time string: "))
>   byte-code(...)
>   org-time-string-to-absolute("")
>   byte-code(...)
>   org-agenda-get-timestamps(nil)
>   org-agenda-get-day-entries("~/emacs_org/mozilla/mozilla.org" (2 6
> 2013) :deadline :scheduled :timestamp :sexp)
>   apply(org-agenda-get-day-entries "~/emacs_org/mozilla/mozilla.org"
> (2 6 2013) (:deadline :scheduled :timestamp :sexp))
>   byte-code(...)
>   byte-code(...)
>   org-agenda-list(nil)
>   call-interactively(org-agenda-list)
>   byte-code(...)
>   org-agenda(nil)
>   call-interactively(org-agenda nil nil)
>
> It's dying when it hits a headline as follows:
>
> * Meeting 13:30
> , <%%(memq (calendar-day-of-week date) '(3))>
>
> I'm guessing this has something to do with the agenda sorting updates
> in the commit not liking the fact that the sexp evaluates to true. If
> the sexp evaluates nil for the day the agenda is trying to parse,
> nothing happens. If it evaluates to something other than nil (t if I
> use (= 3 (calendar-day-of-week date)), 3 if I use memq on a wednesday,
> etc...), I get the above error.

Thanks for reporting this.  Yes, diary sexp are special and can't
really be handled here.  I fixed this in master, please confirm this
is okay.

-- 
 Bastien