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A Beeminder client for Emacs
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Wrong type argument: listp, -21600 #1

Closed byorgey closed 9 years ago

byorgey commented 9 years ago

I think I have beeminder.el successfully installed, but when I try running beeminder-list-goals, I get an error message

Wrong type argument: listp, -21600

and the resulting beeminder buffer just looks like this:

Beeminder goals for user byorgey
sorting criterion: losedate
filters: none

with no goals listed. Any ideas what could be the problem?

byorgey commented 9 years ago

I should add that I have GNU Emacs 24.4.1, and am sure that I am using the most up-to-date version of beeminder.el.

byorgey commented 9 years ago

@mbork do you have any suggestions? I am still getting this error even after pulling all the most recent commits.

mbork commented 9 years ago

Well, I haven't tested beeminder.el on Emacs 24 (I've been on Emacs 25 for several months now). Could you try M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET and tell me what's happening? (I'll have some time tomorrow, maybe I'll try to install an older Emacs and test it there, too.)

And sorry for not responding earlier - somehow I missed your problem (I didn't get any emails about it until now).

byorgey commented 9 years ago

No worries about not responding earlier --- github's notification settings are less than transparent. I wondered if it might be something like that which is why I added a comment mentioning your username.

Anyway, here's what I get when I enable debug-on-error: http://lpaste.net/2391044702120968192 . Happy to provide any other info to help figure this out.

mbork commented 9 years ago

@byorgey try now. I'm almost sure that is the Emacs 24/25 issue. (I used an undocumented feature of time-add, which was quite handy, but I guess it was introduced after your Emacs version.)

byorgey commented 9 years ago

@mbork Progress! Now I get a different error: http://lpaste.net/4038844759618355200 .

mbork commented 9 years ago

That is extremely uncool. It turns out that the alist-get function is also new. I will fix it, but it's not as fast as the previous problem. My fault; I should have installed Emacs 24 (or maybe even Emacs 23) and tested there. Stay tuned, hopefully I'll be able to fix this today.

byorgey commented 9 years ago

No worries, thanks!

mbork commented 9 years ago

On 2015-10-02, at 13:36, Brent Yorgey notifications@github.com wrote:

No worries, thanks!

Hi there,

I finally compiled Emacs 24.1 so that I could test beeminder.el there.

Bad news are that it turned out that I rely on quite a few Emacs 25 features (although it's also quite possible that Emacs 24.3 would suffice, I don't know that yet).

Good news is that there are two possible solutions. One is me adapting beeminder.el to older Emacs. This would take some time - I started giving classes at my university, and I have quite a lot of them this semester, so my coding time will shrink considerably. I guess one week is a reasonable minimum.

Another one is you compiling Emacs 25. While it may sound daunting, it is really a painless process: probably the most time-consuming part is getting all the dependencies, and even that took like 15 minutes on my Ubuntu box and a similar time on Fedora. Then, it is a question of doing

./autoconf.sh ./configure make

and optionally

sudo make install

So, if you are impatient, you may try compiling a bleeding edge Emacs (and it might be worthwhile anyway), and if not, just drop me a note so that I know that I should start working on adapting beeminder.el to older Emacsen.

Best, and sorry for the inconvenience

Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University

byorgey commented 9 years ago

No worries, thanks for looking into this. Building Emacs 25 doesn't scare me, I'll give it a whirl sometime soon.

mbork commented 9 years ago

On 2015-10-08, at 17:21, Brent Yorgey notifications@github.com wrote:

No worries, thanks for looking into this. Building Emacs 25 doesn't scare me, I'll give it a whirl sometime soon.

You may also try the newest version. I haven't test it very extensively in Emacs 24.1.1 yet, but the main features seem to work. (Of course, if you encounter any weird behavior, report it as soon as possible. Also, you might want to set debug-on-error to t, at least for some time.)

By the way, while playing around with beeminder.el on Emacs 24, I discovered a few bugs, so thanks for your input - it helped even for the Emacs 25 experience!

Best,

Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University