Re: [O] newbye questions

[Eric Abrahamsen]

François Patte <address@hidden> writes:

> Le 05/06/2017 à 12:07, Eric Abrahamsen a écrit :
>> François Patte <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Le 05/06/2017 à 01:33, Eric Abrahamsen a écrit :
>>>> François Patte <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Bonjour,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ijust discovered org-mode for emacs and I want to explore the
>>>>> capabilities of this mode for LaTeX documents.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a few preliminary questions:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1- I installed org-mode from ELPA and I get a warning message when I
>>>>> open a *.org file:
>>>>>
>>>>> Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Autoloading failed to define
>>>>> function nnir-article-group")
>>>>>
>>>>> What does it mean and how to get rid of this message.
>>>>
>>>> That's a macro from Gnus, the mail/news client. I'm not quite sure why
>>>> it would be getting triggered from Org. Would you run
>>>> `toggle-debug-on-error', and trigger the warning again?
>>>
>>> I don't know much with the lisp syntax; here is what I have done:
>>> opened emacs,
>>> M-x  toggle-debug-on-error RET
>>> C-f file.org
>>>
>>> And the message is still there....
>>>
>>> This message does not appear if I open file without the .org extension.
>> 
>> Sorry -- of course it's a *warning*, not an error.
>> 
>> My only guess is that this is caused by the call to `nnir-article-group'
>> inside `org-gnus-store-link' in the file org-gnus.el. That file has
>> 
>> (eval-when-compile (require 'gnus-sum))
>> 
>> And gnus-sum.el has:
>> 
>> (autoload 'nnir-article-group "nnir" nil nil 'macro)
>> 
>> So theoretically that should take care of it.
>> 
>> What version of Emacs are you using?
>
> 25.2.1
>
> and org-mode version: 9.0.7 (from elpa)

I'm sorry, I just don't know enough about how Emacs loads and evaluates
these forms to tell you what's going wrong. The nnir macro should
definitely be available in your setup. I don't even know why loading
that Org library would make it complain.

Hopefully someone with more experience can take it from here. Sorry!

E