[sup-talk] messages wrongly labeled as drafts

[jeff covey]

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Mon Aug 20 01:15:21 -0400 2007:

> > i postponed a message, then came back to it, finished it, and sent it.
> > the thread still appears with a "draft" label, which i can't remove.
> > there are currently no draft messages waiting to be finished, but if i
> > hit "R", i get this exception:
> 
> Hm. I'm having trouble reproducing this. Are you able to reproduce it?

there's definitely something odd going on with drafts.  i'm trying to work
on another draft message now.  i started writing it and postponed it.  when
i came back to it, added to it, and exited the editor, i hit "P" to postpone
it again.  the next time i tried to edit it some more, my additions from the
second editing session were gone.  i added a bit of text again as a trial,
and when i exited the editor and postponed, that addition was gone as well.
i tried once again, and this time after exiting the editor, i hit "x" to
kill the buffer.  i was asked "discard draft?", and when i hit "n", i got
the exception below.

when i restarted sup, i had three draft messages in my inbox, one for each
of my attempts (minus the one with the exception), and there are files named
"1", "2", and "3" in ~/.sup/drafts, each with a slightly different version
of the message.


[Mon Aug 20 05:51:18 -0400 2007] stopped cursing
[Mon Aug 20 05:51:18 -0400 2007] oh crap, an exception
[Mon Aug 20 05:51:18 -0400 2007] unlocking /home/jeff/.sup/lock...
----------------------------------------------------------------
I'm very sorry, but it seems that an error occurred in Sup.
Please accept my sincere apologies. If you don't mind, please
send the backtrace below and a brief report of the circumstances
to sup-talk at rubyforge dot orgs so that I might address this
problem. Thank you!

Sincerely,
William
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The problem was: 'undefined method `to_nice_s' for nil:NilClass' (error type NoMethodError)
A backtrace follows:
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:449:in `text_for_thread': undefined method `to_nice_s' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from ./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:431:in `regen_text'
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:233:in `map_with_index'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `each_with_index'
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:233:in `each'
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:233:in `each_with_index'
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:233:in `map_with_index'
        from ./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:431:in `regen_text'
        from ./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:137:in `update'
         ... 9 levels...
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:387:in `method_missing'
        from ./lib/sup/modes/resume-mode.rb:25:in `killable?'
        from ./lib/sup/buffer.rb:317:in `kill_buffer_safely'
        from bin/sup:205


thanks,

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jeff covey
http://jeffcovey.net/