Doom-emacs: org-capture buffer broken? Cannot backspace and/or delete text?

[skalfyfan]

Observed behavior

When entering org-mode capture via SPC - X am unable to delete any previous input when in vim INSERT mode. Any backspace results with an error: _Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil_

Expected behavior

Should be able to press Delete / Backspace to delete input?

Steps to reproduce

On develop branch:

1) Open any file in project
2) Open org capture mode through SPC - X
3) Begin input
4) Attempt to delete previous input by using delete / backspace key
5) _Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil_ error.

System information

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- OS: darwin (x86_64-apple-darwin17.5.0)
- Emacs: 25.3.1 (Apr 23, 2018)
- Doom: 2.0.9 (develop https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/commit/39b08b4d05fb754080f54011c8ee770a1d645a84)
- Graphic display: t (daemon: nil)
- System features: JPEG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES
- Details:
  ```elisp
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  elc dirs:  n/a
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  ```

[hlissner]

I'm unable to reproduce this.

Could you do M-x toggle-debug-on-error, invoke the error, and paste the resulting backtrace here?

[skalfyfan]

@hlissner sure thing! Here you go:

Here I am beginning to type a TODO item using the todo template. I start hitting BACKSPACE just after _..djf_ in the screenshot and continually get the error. That's why you see it happened [11 times]. I kept trying to hit backspace and kept getting the error. 🤔

I've tried completely wiping my org dir (rm -rf ~/org) and it hasn't helped. The issue keeps popping up.

Hope this helps?

[baljeet]

This happens only the first time I do SPC-X

Does not happen on subsequent captures with me. I am using Master branch on MacOs.

Seems like it works for me, not sure what fixed it(tinkered with config a lot), will debug once i encounter it again..

[skalfyfan]

@baljeet Interesting! I just noticed this too. If I wipe my org home dir rm -fr ~/org then I will see this issue using _org-capture_ for each of the default templates (notes and todos). After the ~/org directory is re-created and after entering _org-capture_ mode, the first time I enter any of these templates (todo or notes) I encounter this issue.

After I encounter the issue and close org-capture (C-c C-k) then if I go in a second time then the issue seems to disappear? 🤔

[hlissner]

@skalfyfan I've still yet to reproduce this. I was hoping when you enabled toggle-debug-on-error, you would receive a backtrace, rather than some errors in the log. Does it not trigger a backtrace?

@baljeet You mentioned you use the master branch of Doom. I would highly recommend switching to develop, a lot has changed, but also a great many bugs have been resolved there.

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In any case, do either of you still have this issue? Doom (and the lang/org module) have undergone quite a number of changes, so perhaps it was fixed indirectly?

[linuxing3]

I had the same issue in develop branch.

[baljeet]

@hlissner I did try develop branch around a month back and it was breaking for me, will try it again (maybe tomorrow)...

[hlissner]

If you can reproduce it, please see if you can trigger a backtrace (turn on M-x toggle-debug-on-error, trigger the error, and copy the output of the new Backtrace popup). That would be help me debug this issue a lot!

[hlissner]

I've finally reproduced this. A combination of 3f2318bc, b5baeb81 and 02caf4ee should fix this issue.

Why it happens: If your org-capture target file doesn't exist, Emacs will try to create it. However, the file templates module sees this new, empty org file and kicks in, throwing in an org template and expanding it with yasnippet. This happens before org-capture sets up its capture window, confusing yasnippet in the process.

Those errors came from a snippet command that is attached to backspace, which expects a snippet to be active, but since it isn't...

Anyhow, please update and let me know if the issue resurfaces!