Hi all,
for a while I had been able to run org-contacts-anniversaries with
BIRTHDAY dates successfully, as explained at the bottom of
https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts. This
was on 64-bit Linux. On 32-bit Windows I had the function disabled, as
I have contacts both before 1970. (See this thread:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/42139)
Now, for the first time, I'm running a 64-bit Emacs on Windows
(http://emacsbinw64.sourceforge.net/). I was confident that
org-contacts-anniversaries would work for me, but it didn't. Once more
any invocation of an agenda involving org-contacts-anniversaries haunted
me with the "Bad sexp" error message, pointing to the line in my
contacts.org that contains "%%(org-contacts-anniversaries)".
I am running org-8.2.7c from ELPA, on Emacs 24.4.50.1.
I think I didn't make any of the mistakes documented previously:
* running a mixed Org installation (Org as bundled with Emacs, plus
non-bundled packages; http://stackoverflow.com/a/15568713/2397768)
* using the wrong syntax for org-contacts-files
(http://stackoverflow.com/a/14057170/2397768)
* using empty BIRTHDAY fields (http://stackoverflow.com/a/21968778/2397768)
* not having diary loaded
(https://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg48710.html – but
isn't it actually loaded automatically by org-agenda.el when
org-agenda-include-diary is set to t?)
FYI this is how I disabled org-contacts-anniversaries on non-64-bit
systems:
; disable anniversaries on non-64-bit systems (as they don't handle
dates before 1970)
(defadvice org-contacts-anniversaries (around
disable-org-contacts-anniversaries-on-32-bit)
"No anniversaries on 32-bit systems"
(if (string-prefix-p "x86_64" system-configuration)
(ad-do-it)))
(ad-activate 'org-contacts-anniversaries)
This code does not cause my problem. I have tested it before, and
without this code I'm still getting the "Bad sexp".
I'm giving up for now, reverting to manually maintained entries like
this in my contacts.org:
%%(org-anniversary YYYY MM DD) Name (%d years)
Cheers, and thanks in advance for any helpful advice,
Christoph
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