Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> writes: > Loris Bennett writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm running >> >> Org mode version 9.4.4 (9.4.4-25-g3a522a-elpaplus @ >> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210222/) >> >> and today I encountered the following error when refiling >> >> org-refile: Invalid function: org-preserve-local-variables >> >> Despite the error, the refiling itself did however work. >> >> I am fairly sure that I have refiled without seeing this error message >> since I last updated Org, thus I am somewhat surprised by it. > > org-preserve-local-variables is a macro defined in org-macs.el. That > file is loaded by org.el, which is loaded by org-refile.el. So, I think > everything looks fine there. > > My guess---especially if you're running Emacs 26 or lower, which ships > with an Org that didn't yet have org-preserve-local-variables---is that > you have a mixed installation. list-load-path-shadows might reveal the > problem. > > https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mixed-install
Thanks for the information and the suggestions. I am running 26.1. The Org version is Org mode version 9.4.4 (9.4.4-25-g3a522a-elpaplus @ /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210222/) list-load-path-shadows lots of lines like /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210222/ox-md hides /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20210222/ox-md where elpa/org-plus-contrib hides elpa/org, and lots of lines like /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210222/ox-md hides /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/org/ox-md where elpa/org-plus-contrib hides Org from the OS. Having both org and org-plus-contrib installed from ELPA has always bothered me a bit, but I seem to remember that certainly at some point several years ago, there was an issue (to do with dependencies? or use-package?) which meant I had some problems with org-plus-contrib on its own. Maybe that was wrong back then and maybe is still wrong now. However, duckduckgoing a bit I find the following issue https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/597 from a few years back. Maybe that's what I was hitting. I'll change make my set-up to just use org-plus-contrib and see whether I can reproduce the org-preserve-local-variables error. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.