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Simple jump-to-org-files in a directory package
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how to add additional directories to pow-extra-dirs ? #4

Closed kiuuik closed 7 years ago

kiuuik commented 7 years ago

I changed line 40 from plain-org-wiki.el from (defvar pow-extra-dirs nil to (defvar pow-extra-dirs "/home/user/additionalpath/" and get this error message: 

In ‘Projects’ source: ‘pow-files’ 
 (wrong-type-argument listp "~/home/user/additionalpath/")

I tried with the most recent version of your file plain-org-wiki.el and emacs 25.1/org9.0.4. Then I tried it with your configuration "oremacs" this afternoon. This throws another error in my virtualmachine with emacs 24.5: pow-files: Symbol's function definition is void: mapcan. So I put (require 'cl) at the beginning of plain-org-wiki.el. Then I get the same error as in my config (wrong-type-argument)

How do I add additional paths?

Unfortunately I don't know anything about emacs lisp. I only use org-mode because it's a good substitute for a simple wiki and it offers latex support and pdf export.

I came to your tool because of this: I have my org files in four folders (like work, personal, sideproject). I still haven't found a good solution how to open files from these different locations. Some workarounds like org-projectile did have some unwanted side effects.

PS Thanks for your great software. hydra is indispensable for me. I use avy daily and org-download regularly.

abo-abo commented 7 years ago

See this commit: 88563c922346dfa817499e40f5ab56c72a7a04cc. It should have fixed the mapcan error. Make sure that you have the latest git version.

Try not to edit plain-org-wiki.el. Just put this into your config:

(require 'plain-org-wiki)
(setq pow-directory "/home/user/path/")
(setq pow-extra-dirs '("/home/user/additionalpath-1/"
                       "/home/user/additionalpath-2/"))
kiuuik commented 7 years ago

Your solution works perfectly. Thanks a lot.

About my mapcan error: I accidentally caused it when I wanted to circumvent a problem in emacs-oremacs (that I just downloaded with git clone): When I start it emacs freezes for a long time and I see this error in *Messages*: Error (use-package): ispell :config: Symbol's function definition is void: ispell-hunspell-add-multi-dic. I thought that maybe this problem is caused by missing dictionaries on the system and so I installed hunspell-nl and and hunspell-en-us (sudo apt install hunspell-nl hunspell-en-us). But the problem persisted. So I commented out the section "(use-package ispell ...)" (lines 245-252) in the init.el. Only then I got the mapcan error. It later occurred to me that it's enough to comment out the line (ispell-hunspell-add-multi-dic "en_US,nl_NL") ...

abo-abo commented 7 years ago

When I start it emacs freezes for a long time and I see this error in Messages: Error (use-package): ispell :config: Symbol's function definition is void: ispell-hunspell-add-multi-dic

This is a built in function. It may have been added in Emacs 25, what's your Emacs version?

kiuuik commented 7 years ago

My last report was generated on ubuntu 16.10 with emacs 24.5.1. I tried in another vm with ubuntu 16.04 (without hunspell) with emacs 24.5.1. I get the same error message (Error (use-package): ispell :config: Symbol's function definition is void: ispell-hunspell-add-multi-dic) but emacs doesn't freeze. Again the error disappears if I comment out line 252. I also tried in another VM with Fedora 25 which includes emacs 25.1.1. I get a different error message (and emacs starts as quickly as ususal): Error (use-package): ispell :config: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil. This error message disappears after I comment out line 251 (ispell-set-spellchecker-params). Line 252 doesn't cause any error messages. I always started with a clean oremacs folder and used "git clone", "make install", and "make run" this afternoon and night.

abo-abo commented 7 years ago

Thanks, I'll look into it.