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24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"

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Reported by: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>

Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:57:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.2

Done: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>

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From: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:52:06 +0200

Hi list,

I came accross an annoying bug whith orgmode and remember mode.

To reproduce :

Create a .org file, create 2 level-1 entries. Create one level-2 entry
and hit C-c C-w to refile it into the other level-1 entry.

Like this :

* Entry One
* Entry Two
** Refile Me

The level-2 entry is copied in the correct location but is not removed
from original location.
Minibuffer shows message "Not Bookmark Format". And the file looks like :

* Entry One
** Refile Me
* Entry Two
** Refile Me

The error message is triggered by remember mode from orgmode, so I
don't know where the bug is (orgmode, remember or emacs ?).


In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4)
 of 2012-08-28 on shaun
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:15:14 -0400

Jonathan Schaeffer wrote:

> To reproduce :
>
> Create a .org file, create 2 level-1 entries. Create one level-2 entry
> and hit C-c C-w to refile it into the other level-1 entry.
>
> Like this :
>
> * Entry One
> * Entry Two
> ** Refile Me
>
> The level-2 entry is copied in the correct location but is not removed
> from original location.
> Minibuffer shows message "Not Bookmark Format". And the file looks like :

Thanks for the report, but it works fine for me with Emacs 24.2.
Can you give a complete recipe starting from emacs -Q?
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From: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:06:06 +0200

Le 22/10/2012 18:15, Glenn Morris a écrit :
> Jonathan Schaeffer wrote:
>
>> To reproduce :
>>
>> Create a .org file, create 2 level-1 entries. Create one level-2 entry
>> and hit C-c C-w to refile it into the other level-1 entry.
>>
>> Like this :
>>
>> * Entry One
>> * Entry Two
>> ** Refile Me
>>
>> The level-2 entry is copied in the correct location but is not removed
>> from original location.
>> Minibuffer shows message "Not Bookmark Format". And the file looks like :
>
> Thanks for the report, but it works fine for me with Emacs 24.2.
> Can you give a complete recipe starting from emacs -Q?
>
Hi Glenn,

(I made a reply all, is that alright ?)

with emacs -Q, I can not reproduce the bug. But refile does not work at 
all, (Complains : wrong type argument arrayp,nil).
I do :
1. emacs -Q
2. C-x C-f refiletest.org
3. Fill the buffer with :
* Entry One
* Entry Two
** Refile Me

4. Hit C-c C-w
5. The entry is duplicated and I can read the error message "Not 
bookmark format)

If, instead of visiting a file, I open just a new buffer with "C-x b 
test.org", the behaviour is different :
On refile (C-c C-w) nothing happens but the error message shows:
wrong type argument: arrayp, nil

Just to be sure, I moved the ~/.emacs away, same result.

I hope this helps. I have the archlinux build of emacs, so maybe the 
error is on the packaging side ?

cheers,

jonathan

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:50:06 -0400

Jonathan Schaeffer wrote:

> (I made a reply all, is that alright ?)

Yes, that's the right thing to do.

> with emacs -Q, I can not reproduce the bug. But refile does not work
> at all, (Complains : wrong type argument arrayp,nil).
> I do :
> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. C-x C-f refiletest.org
> 3. Fill the buffer with :
> * Entry One
> * Entry Two
> ** Refile Me
>
> 4. Hit C-c C-w
> 5. The entry is duplicated and I can read the error message "Not
> bookmark format)

Sorry, this works fine for me with Emacs 24.2. Maybe someone who
actually uses Org will step in and help...

> If, instead of visiting a file, I open just a new buffer with "C-x b
> test.org", the behaviour is different :
> On refile (C-c C-w) nothing happens but the error message shows:
> wrong type argument: arrayp, nil

This doesn't make sense to me; because just doing `C-x b test.org' creates
a buffer in fundamental mode, where C-c C-w is not bound to any key.

It seems like your Emacs must be customized in some way, even with
`emacs -Q'...

> I hope this helps. I have the archlinux build of emacs, so maybe the
> error is on the packaging side ?
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From: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:08:33 +0200

Le 23/10/2012 09:50, Glenn Morris a écrit :
> Jonathan Schaeffer wrote:
>
>> If, instead of visiting a file, I open just a new buffer with "C-x b
>> test.org", the behaviour is different :
>> On refile (C-c C-w) nothing happens but the error message shows:
>> wrong type argument: arrayp, nil
>
> This doesn't make sense to me; because just doing `C-x b test.org' creates
> a buffer in fundamental mode, where C-c C-w is not bound to any key.
Sorry, I missed a step : I manualy load the org-mode mode (Alt-x 
org-mode) before doing anything in the buffer.
This might be an orgmode bug, from what I read on the internet.
>
> It seems like your Emacs must be customized in some way, even with
> `emacs -Q'...
I'll submit a post on Archlinux forum to see if someone can reproduce this.

jonathan

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From: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>
To: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:57:14 +0200

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr> writes:

> I'll submit a post on Archlinux forum to see if someone can reproduce
> this.

You can also try reporting your problem to the emacs-orgmode mailing
list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

There are some ArchLinux Org-mode users there.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:59:07 -0400

Bastien wrote:

> You can also try reporting your problem to the emacs-orgmode mailing
> list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

It's already there, since I reassigned this bug.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-10/msg00563.html
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:06:31 -0400

Jonathan Schaeffer wrote:

> Sorry, I missed a step : I manualy load the org-mode mode (Alt-x 
> org-mode) before doing anything in the buffer.
> This might be an orgmode bug, from what I read on the internet.

I can reproduce that in Emacs 24.2 and current trunk.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
  file-truename(nil)
  find-buffer-visiting(nil)
  org-refile-check-position((#("Entry One" 0 9 (face org-level-1 fontified t))
  org-refile-get-location("Refile subtree \"Refile Me\" to" nil nil nil)
  org-refile(nil)
  call-interactively(org-refile nil nil)


org-refile-check-position does not handle being called from a buffer not
visiting a file.

(Still no idea about the original issue.)
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:24:05 -0400

Jonathan Schaeffer wrote:

> To reproduce :
>
> Create a .org file, create 2 level-1 entries. Create one level-2 entry
> and hit C-c C-w to refile it into the other level-1 entry.
>
> Like this :
>
> * Entry One
> * Entry Two
> ** Refile Me
>
> The level-2 entry is copied in the correct location but is not removed
> from original location.
> Minibuffer shows message "Not Bookmark Format". And the file looks like :
>
> * Entry One
> ** Refile Me
> * Entry Two
> ** Refile Me

I found a way to reproduce this: have a corrupt bookmarks file.
Check the contents of your bookmark-default-file. Try (re)moving it.

Perhaps Org could trap and report such errors more gracefully.
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From: Philipp Kroos <philipp.kroos <at> t-online.de>
To: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Subject: Re: [O] bug#12702: 24.2;
	Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:52:49 +0200

Hi,

Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org> writes:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr> writes:
>
>> I'll submit a post on Archlinux forum to see if someone can reproduce
>> this.
>
> You can also try reporting your problem to the emacs-orgmode mailing
> list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>
> There are some ArchLinux Org-mode users there.

I'm on Arch so I checked it with my emacs from the repositories.
I can  reproduce it, but I think it's unrelated to Archlinux.
If I enter the org-buffer with C-x b, M-x org-mode,
M-x toggle-debug-on-error shows that the error (wrong-type-argument
arryp nil) goes back to org-refile-check-position in org.el.
The let-form sets `file` to (nth 1 refile-pointer), which is `nil` *if*
the buffer was loaded like mentioned. This value is given to
find-buffer-visiting, from where file-truename eventually throws the error.

If the file is visited with C-x f, `file` is set to the correct value
(current directory + filename) and the refiling is correct.

Best, Philipp
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From: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:15:23 +0200

Le 23/10/2012 18:24, Glenn Morris a écrit :
>
> I found a way to reproduce this: have a corrupt bookmarks file.
> Check the contents of your bookmark-default-file. Try (re)moving it.
Wonderfull.
I had an empty ~/.emacs.d/bookmarks file.
I removed it and the problem is gone.

Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Perhaps Org could trap and report such errors more gracefully.
>
The error message makes sense ... as soon as you know where the problem 
comes from :)

cheers,

Jonathan

PS. I'm kind of new to emacs, and use orgmode intensively now, and it's 
my first emacs bug report. Your reactivity is realy great, I appreciate it.

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Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 12702-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:29:48 +0200

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr> writes:

>> Perhaps Org could trap and report such errors more gracefully.
>>
> The error message makes sense ... as soon as you know where the problem
> comes from :)

I enhanced the error message, which now says to save the buffer in a
file when refiling to the current non-file buffer.

(Reporting an error when the bookmark format is corrupted is left to
the bookmark library.)

I'm closing this bug now.

Thanks for reporting this!

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:54:38 -0400

>> I found a way to reproduce this: have a corrupt bookmarks file.
>> Check the contents of your bookmark-default-file. Try (re)moving it.
> Wonderfull.
> I had an empty ~/.emacs.d/bookmarks file.
> I removed it and the problem is gone.

Hmm... it would be good if Emacs were a bit more helpful here by
maybe including the bookmark file name in the error.

> The error message makes sense ... as soon as you know where the problem
> comes from :)

Also, while it's good to signal to the user that his bookmark file is
corrupted (and to make sure we don't overwrite it with something else),
I don't see why that should prevent Org's Refile from working.


        Stefan
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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"'Jonathan Schaeffer'" <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
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Subject: RE: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:09:21 -0700

> >> I found a way to reproduce this: have a corrupt bookmarks file.
> >> Check the contents of your bookmark-default-file. Try 
> >> (re)moving it.
> > Wonderfull. I had an empty ~/.emacs.d/bookmarks file.
> > I removed it and the problem is gone.
> 
> Hmm... it would be good if Emacs were a bit more helpful here by
> maybe including the bookmark file name in the error.
> 
> > The error message makes sense ... as soon as you know where 
> > the problem comes from :)
> 
> Also, while it's good to signal to the user that his bookmark file
> is corrupted (and to make sure we don't overwrite it with 
> something else), I don't see why that should prevent Org's
> Refile from working.

Sorry, I have not been following this thread - excuse me if I misunderstand.

But AFAIK an empty bookmark file should not present any problems for Emacs (for
bookmark handling, at least, and I would hope for Org mode and anything else
too).

Is that really what the problem was - an empty bookmark file was interpreted (by
something) as a corrupt bookmark file?  If so, that in itself sounds like a bug,
to me.

I use Bookmark+, but I would guess that vanilla bookmark.el too handles the
existence of an empty bookmark file with no problem.  If not, that would be the
first thing to fix, I would think.

(Again, ignore if I've misunderstood.)
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	Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:12:35 +0200

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> The error message makes sense ... as soon as you know where the problem
>> comes from :)
>
> Also, while it's good to signal to the user that his bookmark file is
> corrupted (and to make sure we don't overwrite it with something else),
> I don't see why that should prevent Org's Refile from working.

By default, org-refile and org-capture store bookmarks to the last
refiled/captured Org headline.  (There is org-capture-bookmark in
case users want to deactivate this for captured headlines.)

We could skip this step in Org in case the bookmark format is
corrupted, or have a more informative message that makes clear to 
the user that Org tries to store a bookmark.

What do you think?

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	Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:57:34 -0400

>>> The error message makes sense ... as soon as you know where the problem
>>> comes from :)
>> Also, while it's good to signal to the user that his bookmark file is
>> corrupted (and to make sure we don't overwrite it with something else),
>> I don't see why that should prevent Org's Refile from working.
> By default, org-refile and org-capture store bookmarks to the last
> refiled/captured Org headline.  (There is org-capture-bookmark in
> case users want to deactivate this for captured headlines.)
> We could skip this step in Org in case the bookmark format is
> corrupted, or have a more informative message that makes clear to 
> the user that Org tries to store a bookmark.

I don't know the details of what happens currently when the bookmark file is
corrupted but at least such an occurrence shouldn't prevent org-refile
from working (tho obviously in a degraded way).

IOW, if needed we could wrap the calls to bookmark-set in
with-demoted-errors, but maybe those errors are signaled late enough
already that while the command signals an error, it did do what it was
expected to do.


        Stefan
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Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:18:58 +0200

Le 24/10/2012 17:09, Drew Adams a écrit :
>
> But AFAIK an empty bookmark file should not present any problems for Emacs (for
> bookmark handling, at least, and I would hope for Org mode and anything else
> too).
Yes, you have a point here.

I tested again the Org refile function in 3 cases :
- no bookmarks file
- an empty bookmarks file
- changed the ownership of the file so that the user has no rights to 
write the bookmarks file

And it behaves gently in the 3 cases.

But I'm positive about the fact that the error disapeared when I removed 
an empty bookmarks files.

Maybe Glenn could tell how he was able to corrupt his bookmarks file ?

jonathan
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Information forwarded to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-orgmode <at> gnu.org:
bug#12702; Package emacs,org-mode. (Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:28:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #58 received at 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Cc: 12702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:25:54 -0400

Jonathan Schaeffer wrote:

> Maybe Glenn could tell how he was able to corrupt his bookmarks file ?

I intentionally added junk to it.
Information forwarded to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-orgmode <at> gnu.org:
bug#12702; Package emacs,org-mode. (Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:15:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #61 received at 12702-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 12702-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Jonathan Schaeffer <jonathan.schaeffer <at> univ-brest.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#12702: 24.2; Orgmode Refile complains "Not bookmark format"
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:56:26 +0200

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> IOW, if needed we could wrap the calls to bookmark-set in
> with-demoted-errors, but maybe those errors are signaled late enough
> already that while the command signals an error, it did do what it was
> expected to do.

I've now wrapped calls to `bookmark-set' within `with-demoted-errors'
in Org, the capture and the refile processes will not be stopped by
corrupted bookmark files.

I'm now closing this bug.

Thanks,

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bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:24:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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