[Orgmode] Re: wrong-type-argument when publishing to HTML

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>> On Sep 2, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>>>
>>>> A colleague of mine gets the error `(wrong-type-argument stringp nil)'
>>>> when executing the command (from a script, under Ubuntu and Emacs 22.2.1
>>>> with Org-mode 6.29c):
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>> emacs --batch \
>>>>    --load ./Org2HTML.el \
>>>>    --visit=agile-software-development.org \
>>>>    --funcall org-publish-current-file
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>
>>>> Here is the contents of Org2HTML.el:
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>> ;; Org-mode
>>>> (require 'org)
>>>>
>>>> ;; publish related Org-mode files as a website
>>>> (require 'org-publish)
>>>>
>>>> ;; association list to control publishing behavior
>>>> (setq org-publish-project-alist
>>>>     '(("Project"
>>>>        :base-directory "./"
>>>>        :recursive t
>>>>        :publishing-directory "../public_html/"
>>>>        :base-extension "org"
>>>>        :publishing-function org-publish-org-to-html
>>>>        [...]
>>>>        )))
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>> This looks to me as if the the file being published is not in org- mode.
>>> So my first guess would be that Org2HTML.el misses the following line:
>>>
>>> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
>>>
>>> Remember that --batch processing implies -q, i.e. the .emacs file will not
>>> be evalated.
>>
>> I knew that, but I thought that
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;; Org-mode
>> (require 'org)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> would add the association `.org' in `auto-mode-alist' on its own.
>
> No, this is, I think, against Emacs conventions, because it would overrule
> user setup - some people might want to use .org for a different purpose.

Can you really imagine that? ;-)

OK. I was totally unaware of this fact, that we had to do such an association
(between the `.org' extension and the Org-mode) "manually" ...


> In Emacs 23, the default value for auto-mode-alist contains the regexp for
> org-mode, but I guess you are not running 23 in this case.

... or had to use Emacs 23 -- what I'm doing for a long while already, but not
my colleague (still using Emacs 22).

Well seen!


>> Anyway, adding the above `add-to-list' line (just after the `require org')
>> solved the problem of my colleague. Thanks.
>
> You are welcome.

Thanks again.

Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban