Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: planner problems...

[David O'Toole]

Thanks for the troubleshooting help Sacha. I will try your updated
version as soon as I can and get back to you. In the meantime I do
have the following info: 

>
> Hmm. What's font-lock-support-mode? 
>

jit-lock-mode

>
> That's odd. This is my fault, but I've never run into the problem
> before... Hmm. Could you send me an offending page?
>

Pretty much any page with tasks (even one not being viewed, but buffer
is open) can have it. I can't make it happen right now (it's
unpredictable... sometimes saving again without changes can succeed.)
but it seems to happen more often when there's more than one paragraph
full of tasks. This is what happens:

BEFORE:

#A1  _ task description 
#A2  _ task description 
#A3  _ task description  
#B4  _ task description  

#A5  _ task description 
#A6  _ task description 
#B7  _ task description 
#B8  _ task description 
#B9  _ task description 
#B10 _ task description 

AFTER TRYING TO SAVE: 

#A1  _ task description 
#A2  _ task description 
#A3  _ task description  
#B4  _ task description  
#A1  _ task description  <--- duplicate of A1 fills blank line
#A5  _ task description 
#A6  _ task description 
#B7  _ task description 
#B8  _ task description 
#B9  _ task description 
#B10 _ task description 


> Oh, this is because those use overlays. The following Lisp snippet
> fixes that, I think.
>
> (defadvice emacs-wiki-unhighlight-region (after planner activate)
>   "Get rid of overlays."
>   (planner-zap-overlays begin end))

This results in all white plain text even with font locking turned
off. Toggling the font-locking produces the following: 

emacs-wiki-unhighlight-region
Preparing diary...done
Error during redisplay: (void-function planner-zap-overlays)
call-interactively: Quit
Wrote /home/dto/Plans/2004.11.19
emacs-wiki-unhighlight-region: Symbol's function definition is void: 
planner-zap-overlays
Font-Lock mode enabled
Error during redisplay: (void-function planner-zap-overlays) [16 times]
(No changes need to be saved)
Error during redisplay: (void-function planner-zap-overlays) [18 times]
emacs-wiki-unhighlight-region: Symbol's function definition is void: 
planner-zap-overlays
Font-Lock mode enabled
Error during redisplay: (void-function planner-zap-overlays) [16 times]
emacs-wiki-unhighlight-region: Symbol's function definition is void: 
planner-zap-overlays
Font-Lock mode enabled
Error during redisplay: (void-function planner-zap-overlays) [16 times]
emacs-wiki-unhighlight-region: Symbol's function definition is void: 
planner-zap-overlays
Font-Lock mode enabled
Error during redisplay: (void-function planner-zap-overlays) [16 times]
emacs-wiki-unhighlight-region: Symbol's function definition is void: 
planner-zap-overlaysError during redisplay: (void-function planner-zap-overlays)
Error during redisplay: (void-function planner-zap-overlays) [4 times]
Quit [3 times]




Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:

> David O'Toole <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> For some reason I can't post this to the list. Can you forward it for
>
> It made it to the list, according to Gmane...
>
>> in planner for doing such a great job. I organize all my work with
>> planner and have done so since 2004.03.22 or thereabouts. My planner
>> wiki is now organized around my job description, so I can track tasks
>
> Hey, that's a cool idea... <muses>
>
>> PDF through Firefox. I've even done a bit of custom lisp and would
>> love to do more, possibly contributing pieces if I do anything cool
>> enough.
>
> We'd love to hear about your tweaks, even the ones you consider uncool! =)
> I'm particularly interested in how people personalize their planners,
> writing support for individual quirks... =)
>
>> 1. When I turn off font-locking with C-c C-l, only the links and
>>    headings "* Diary" "* Tasks" go back to normal text. Everything
>>    else (red/green/blue task priority colors, task ID face) stays
>>    font-locked.
>
> Oh, this is because those use overlays. The following Lisp snippet
> fixes that, I think.
>
> (defadvice emacs-wiki-unhighlight-region (after planner activate)
>   "Get rid of overlays."
>   (planner-zap-overlays begin end))
>
> If that works for you too, I'll put it into stable.
>
>> 2. Font locking looks fine when just turned on---however, it seems
>>    very slow and pauses emacs often for several seconds when editing
>>    text in a large block of tasks---for each character typed. I often
>
> Hmm. What's font-lock-support-mode? 
>
>> 3. Font locking falls apart sometimes after saving. Now the Headings
>>    and links stay ON and everything else is off (the reverse of #1.)
>>    Also, the task mark _X>oCP reappears when it should be hidden. 
>
> Yikes. This sounds like some kind of emacs-wiki issue. Mike! Help!
>
>> 4. When saving a planner page, I get a lot more "args out of range ###
>>    ###" messages and duplicate tasks than normal. I get this even with my
>> good copy of planner, but there are definitely more with the recent
>> tarball. This doesn't seem to affect emacs-wiki pages without tasks on
>> them.
>
> That's odd. This is my fault, but I've never run into the problem
> before... Hmm. Could you send me an offending page?
>
>> 5. Completely unable to publish with C-c C-p or C-u C-c C-p. It always
>>    fails with emacs-wiki-publish-files: Wrong type argument: stringp,
>>    ("/home/dto/Plans/2004.11.29"). That's a date in the future but it
>>    is a valid plan page file with an appointment listed in its diary
>>    section.
>
> There was some strangeness involving cons cells and I might've had
> versions in my directory. I updated to Michael Olson's latest and
> regenerated the tar.gz s. Could you please check them again?
>
>> I get the following lines in the *Messages* buffer (is there a way to
>> keep more of these? I can't scroll back that far....)
>
> Peek into emacs-wiki-refresh-file-alist and comment out the call to
> ;;                    (message "%s" (car files))
>
> So sorry!
>
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