From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17199 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: org-columns-compile-format: Wrong type argument: stringp, 1 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:45:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87siibf11p.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414331209 21004 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2014 13:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 26 14:46:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XiO9a-0002fG-M2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:46:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiO9a-00068A-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:46:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiO9H-00064N-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiO9A-0005fW-Dt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiO9A-0005fR-7Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XiO98-0002Rv-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:46:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.143.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:46:14 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:46:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ofq8CsIEXooEPTtO4lELDe+NLJE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100616 gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17199 Archived-At: > I am having great difficulty, in fact its impossible, to send an email > or newsgroup posting. Whenever I try I get this showing in the > mini-buffer - > ╭──── > │org-columns-compile-format: Wrong type argument: stringp, 1 > ╰──── Whenever you get such an error (e.g. void-function or wrong type argument), enable "Options => Enter Debugger on Error", and reproduce the problem. This will give you a backtrace which will make it much easier to figure out what's going on. Stefan