Re: [O] bug in org-element-footnote-definition-parser?

[Nick Dokos]

Mark Edgington <address@hidden> writes:

> Nick Dokos <ndokos <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Mark Edgington <edgimar <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> I have encountered the following error message when trying to export
>> >> to latex the attached example org file:
>> >>
>> >> org-element-footnote-definition-parser: Invalid search bound (wrong
>> >> side of point)
>> >>
>> 
>> I 'm not sure but I believe this was a bug in emacs that Eli Zaretskii
>> fixed recently.  You will need to update your emacs. In the git mirror I
>> use, the commit appears like this:
>> 
>> commit b2b5f414358a7835b56613f67d2b0278ee804290
>> Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> Date:   Wed Jan 1 19:44:48 2014 +0200
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> I can confirm that updating emacs to 24.3.1 does eliminate the problem. 
> But, what this means is that the problem will exist for any users who are
> still using Emacs 23 -- and maybe this shouldn't concern anyone since
> normally using bleeding-edge org-mode code would coincide with using newer
> versions of emacs...
>

No, I don't think so: this was a bug in a caching mechanism that was
introduced (disabled) in emacs 24 - it was enabled a couple of months
ago. It should not affect any emacs 23 users.

-- 
Nick