Re: Debugging calendar gremlin in emacs 22.0.50.1

[Glenn Morris]

Replies to the list, rather than me, please.


ken wrote (on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 at 19:10 -0400):

> Here's my test diary-file:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ;-*- mode: lisp; auto-fill-mode: off; fill-column: 999999 -*-
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 9 18 1970) %d years ago it was 9/18/1970
[...]

> I run M-x diary and this is the output:

> %%(diary-anniversary 9 18 1970) %d years ago it was 9/18/1970
[...]

> I didn't think that is what it's supposed to do.


Without knowing what you thought it was supposed to do, it's hard to
comment. If you meant, why are the %d's etc not being expanded, such
things only happen if you use fancy-diary-display, and from the sound
of it you aren't.


> > unrelated to all the stuff you describe above. So where's the
> > backtrace from this sequencep error?
>
> Oh, yeah. the toggle-debug-on-error helped find the problem. It was
> a diary-related thing in my .emacs.