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org-mobile checksum stuff supressing errors and using inconsistent checksum

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From: Taylor Sutton <taylors <at> mit.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: org-mobile checksum stuff supressing errors and using inconsistent
 checksum
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 14:00:29 -0400

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Two related bugs. As far as I understand, in org-mobile.el, part of
the org-mobile code is writing checksums of the files to be sync'd to
checksums.dat, and the checksum function is (supposed to be) governed by
the custom variable org-mobile-checksum-binary. However, for the index
file, the agenda file, and the capture file, the checksums are always
computed with the elisp md5 function instead. I am not sure if this
particular part should actually be considered a bug. But it affected the
next part.

If the custom org-mobile-checksum-binary is set wrong (in my case, I did
not quote the filepath which has spaces in it) then in the function
'org-mobile-copy-agenda-files, after running the
'shell-command-to-string, the output which was, for me on windows,

'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file

and that did not satisfy the when statement's string-match, and so the
checksums of my files were not written to checksums.dat - but there was
no message of any kind indiciating this to me as a user, and I didn't
realize what was happening until I delved into org-mobile.el. It was
especially confusing because some checksums were being written due to
the hard-coded checksum function described above.

Anyway so, in sum (haha) if there are any issues running the
shell-command-to-string inside of org-mobile-copy-agenda-files, those
issues seem to be silently suppressed, leading to checksums not being
written and files not syncing WITHOUT any indication of what's going
on. Expected behavior is that I get some indication of what happened so
I can fix it.

-Taylor Sutton taylors <at> mit.edu

The data below was included by report-emacs-bug

In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
 of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --cflags
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
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Major mode: Org

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<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> o r g SPC m b o
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C-x o C-n C-f <return> C-x r j a C-x r b a <return>
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C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-s C-g C-r m d 5 C-s C-s C-s C-s
C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-g <help-echo> <wheel-up>
<double-wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up>
<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>
<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>
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<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-g C-x 4 b t o
d o <return> M-x r e p o r t SPC b u <backspace> <backspace>
e m SPC b SPC <return>

Recent messages:
(No changes need to be saved)
Saving file c:/Users/taylors/Dropbox/todo.org...
Wrote c:/Users/taylors/Dropbox/todo.org
Quit [2 times]
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
jump-to-register: Register doesn't contain a buffer position or
configuration
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Quit

Load-path shadows:
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Message #8 received at 18414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>
To: Taylor Sutton <taylors <at> mit.edu>
Cc: 18414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18414: org-mobile checksum stuff supressing errors and using
 inconsistent checksum
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:11:56 +0200

Hi Taylor,

Taylor Sutton <taylors <at> mit.edu> writes:

> I can fix it.

It looks like your understanding of the problems is enough to propose
a patch -- would you like to propose one?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
 Bastien

Message #11 received at 18414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Taylor Sutton <taylors <at> mit.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#18414: org-mobile checksum stuff supressing errors and
 using inconsistent checksum
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 05:49:19 +0200

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

> Taylor Sutton <taylors <at> mit.edu> writes:
>
>> I can fix it.
>
> It looks like your understanding of the problems is enough to propose
> a patch -- would you like to propose one?

(I'm going through old bug reports.)

This was six years ago, and I had a glance at org-mobile.el, and it
seems like the problems described might still be present in Emacs 28.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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