GNU bug report logs - #54878
29.0.50; diary-fancy-display - with-current-buffer nil

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 54878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 54878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54878: 29.0.50; diary-fancy-display - with-current-buffer nil
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:43:12 +0200
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Am 13.04.22 um 02:09 schrieb Lars Ingebrigtsen:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>  writes:
>
>> You asked for a diary file. Don't have that. But have a file SOME.org
>> in that directory, where diary-fancy-display is looking into. Which
>> shouldn't matter WRT bug, just because you asked.
> ~/.emacs.d/diary should be a file, not a directory.  Having that be a
> directory is not supported.
>

Let assume the user had such a file. Now it got deleted. Which results 
in that spurious error.

Instead of that opaque error, a warning could be sent - likewise, 
preventing it internally seems an option.
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