Re: [O] A file with 'org-mode rot'?

[Karl Voit]

* Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I am still facing strange behavior and I still do think that we
>> need an org-mode-syntax-checker for Org-mode files that cause
>> problems.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> | foo | bar | baz |
>> |  42 |     |     |
>> |  23 |     |     |
>
> I don't understand what a "syntax checker" has to do with it.
> Notwithstanding the fact that such a checker assumes all Org obeys to
> a single syntax definition, which is what I'm struggling for, but is not
> the case actually, it would report, in this case, that syntax is valid.
> How would that help?

I had some issues where time-stamps of deadlines and logbook were
written in the wrong position, messing up drawers.

A syntax checker is not a 100% sure thing, yes. However, it would
help to get information on unknown drawers, missing :END: lines,
mismatching blocks, and so forth. I am not completely sure how to
achieve this. 

However, my (long) Org-mode files with the performance issues is not
a situation I am satisfied. Last week I presented Org-mode at a
Linuxdays-event here in Graz and I had to apologize for all the
weird behavior. This was somewhat embarrassing :-(

> I generated a 32000 lines long file and couldn't reproduce the problem.
> What Org version are you using?

d5484ae 2014-04-12 from the repos.

Probably it has to do with my Emacs binary as well: GNU Emacs
24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2014-01-01 on gkar, modified by Debian

The Emacs on the Windows machine in the office does not show many
issues. However, my configuration is only 95% the same for both
machines.

>> Still not possible: org-agenda-list & org-agenda-write to ICS file.
>> Org-mode is working hard but is in some kind of endless loop. I
>> assume that this also would work when I would change to a small
>> Org-mode file. I can test this if it helps.
>
> It would help. So would an ECM for the reported infloop.

Pfuh, I totally understand this :-)

Wow, I am afraid this will be hard work to generate but I will
schedule it. Please be patient because I have lots of stuff to do
these days.

> Also you can try to set `toggle-debug-on-quit', C-g amid the infloop,
> and report the backtrace.

Sure. After a couple of minutes, I C-g and this is the output:
http://paste.grml.org/1898/

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