[Orgmode] Re: Orgmodeorg-export-generic gives an error

[Shelagh Manton]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:39:06 -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote:

>>>>>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:19:19 +0000 (UTC), srinivas
>>>>>> <address@hidden> said:
> 
> s> Nick Dokos suggested the following fix to .emacs:
> 
> s> (if (< emacs-major-version 23)
> s> (defun characterp (obj)
> s> (and (char-or-string-p obj) (not (stringp obj)))))
> 
> s> Inserting this check makes org-export-generic work for me. My Emacs
> s> version on Windows is 22.3.1.
> 
> (I was on vacation for a week and didn't see this problem).
> 
> I wrote export-generic under xemacs and didn't notice that there was a
> function compatibility issue.
> 
> This patch to it should fix things:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/org-export-generic.el b/lisp/org-export-generic.el
> index 64dcb1f..c9fc161 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-export-generic.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-export-generic.el
> @@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ REVERSE means to reverse the list if the plist
> match is a list
>          subtype)
>      (cond
>       ((null prefixtype) "")
> -     ((and len (characterp prefixtype)) +     ((and len
> (char-or-string-p prefixtype) (not (stringp prefixtype )))
>        ;; sequence of chars
>        (concat (make-string len prefixtype) "\n"))
>       ((stringp prefixtype)

Someone mentioned in a previous post about a function you use to create a 
new org-generic-alist called set-alist which is not known in gnu emacs.

(defun org-set-generic-type (type definition)
  "Adds a TYPE and DEFINITION to the existing list of defined generic
export definitions."
  (set-alist 'org-generic-alist type definition))

 I went searching for the function. I found the library which seems to be 
part of the xemacs bundle. What could we use for people who use gnu 
emacs? Is there a function in emacs that would be a good substitute?

Shelagh