Wait I was wrong about being wrong -- I *am* on 9.7.30. How strange. I
obliterated it from my .emacs.d/ folder, and the string "9.7.30" is not
present therein, and 9.7.30 still isn't part of the NixOS channel I'm on.
And I see there's a new channel available. I'm upgrading to that now. Maybe
everything I said here today is stale; my apologies.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> oh wait but that was after rolling back to 9.7.12 when trying to solve
> some other errorr. (It didn't work.) Sorry! I'll switch back to 9.7.30 now.
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I just got the "wrong side of point" message again, in a situation that I
>> now remember has I believe triggered it numerous times. I was using
>> org-roam, and modify a node that looked like the following (which is
>> indented 2 spaces only in this email, not in the file it came from):
>>
>> * the limits of logic | information | expression
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :ID: c893937e-bca4-4a77-aa6c-ad481bf1d042
>> :END:
>>
>> I added a "ROAM_ALIASES" line to it:
>>
>> * the limits of logic | information | expression
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :ID: c893937e-bca4-4a77-aa6c-ad481bf1d042
>> :ROAM_ALIASES: "limits of logic | information | expression"
>> :END:
>>
>> WHen I then tried to save I got the error, which prevented me from saving
>> it. I removed all leading whitespace, because I seem to remember that that
>> worked once, but it didn't this time -- the following:
>>
>> * the limits of logic | information | expression
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :ID: c893937e-bca4-4a77-aa6c-ad481bf1d042
>> :ROAM_ALIASES: "limits of logic | information | expression"
>> :END:
>>
>> was also unsaveable, due to the same error. So I entered text-mode
>> (leaveing org-mode), from which I could save. I then reloaded the file and
>> now it's not giving me problems.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown....@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I may have been seeing it once a week on average? I've just updated from
>>> .12 to .30. If I keep seeing it I'll (after verifying that NixOS hasn't
>>> reverted to an earlier version -- I updated procedurally within Emacs
>>> rather than declaratively via NixOS, because I don't see .30 packaged for
>>> NixOS yet and I find making my own packages extremely difficult) let you
>>> know. Thanks!
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown....@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> > I generated the email below automatically. I was prompted with a
>>>> complaint
>>>> > that there were unprintable characters and I selected url-encode. Then
>>>> > something borked about my not having email from Emacs set up. So I
>>>> copied
>>>> > the message and am pasting it now. Thank you:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for reporting!
>>>>
>>>> > Emacs : GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit,
>>>> cairo
>>>> > version 1.18.2, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>>>> > Package: Org mode version 9.7.12 (9.7.12-28c83e @
>>>> >
>>>> /nix/store/31yg1yfkdfxsg0x7i4sxhffh8c2q7810-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/org-9.7.12/)
>>>> > ...
>>>> > org--warnings '("org-element--cache: Org parser error in
>>>> > shareable_knowledge_gardens.org::18084. Resetting.\n The error was:
>>>> (error
>>>> > \"Invalid search bound (wrong side of point)\")\n Backtrace:\nnil\n
>>>> Please
>>>> > report this to Org mode mailing list (M-x org-submit-bug-report).")
>>>>
>>>> This should be the warning you saw.
>>>> May I know if you see it frequently?
>>>> If yes, can you try to upgrade Org mode to the latest Org 9.7.30 and
>>>> let me know if the warning keeps popping up?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
>>>> Org mode maintainer,
>>>> Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
>>>> Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
>>>> or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
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> <https://github.com/jeffreybenjaminbrown>
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