Setup not working

[MatthewDarling]

Having set the relevant variable for my blog, I can't seem to get tumblesocks-api-test-auth to complete using Emacs 24.1 on either Windows 7 or Ubuntu 12.04. I don't know enough about Emacs Lisp to really debug the issue, but I also tried the changes mentioned here and it didn't help.

Sorry this isn't particularly helpful; I keep trying to step through the code to find where the error occurs, but as soon as something goes wrong, the backtrace disappears and I get the "something didn't work, retry? y/n" prompt. So I keep passing it by accident and not noticing where the real error is.

If you've got any suggestions for an easy solution/how to start investigating, I'd be happy to try it.

[gcr]

Hey there!

Odd that some people are having problems with Tumblesocks. I wasn't aware of this; thanks for letting me know (and for linking me to that post!)

I'll find an ubuntu VM and see if I can't reproduce this. In the mean time, mind answering some questions?

• How'd you install Tumblesocks? Through Marmalade or something?
• Does evaluating (require 'sasl nil t) print sasl in the minibuffer? (You can type that in the scratch buffer and then use C-x e to evaluate it)

[gcr]

Oh also, what happens if you just try to evaluate (tumblesocks-api-user-info)?

And finally, did Firefox (or your web browser) pop up and ask Tumblr to authorize your account, or did you even get to that step?

[gcr]

Aha! I just tried a fresh Ubuntu install, got Emacs from the Ubuntu software center, and it broke, just like you're saying.

I was able to fix this by installing the curl program. Does installing curl fix your problem?

sudo apt-get install curl

You can see this because just running (tumblesocks-api-user-info) complains that curl wasn't found.

If this solves your problem, let me know and I'll update the README and maybe add a line to the tumblesocks-api-test-auth function that asks people to install curl if they don't already have it.

[MatthewDarling]

So, in order: I installed Tumblesocks through MELPA, because Marmalade happened to be down. I think MELPA just pulls from your Github repo, don't know if Marmalade is any different.

(require 'sasl nil t) does print sasl, yes.

When I evaluate (tumblesocks-api-user-info), I get the output:

Search failed: "^M
"

With that newline character in it. Does that tell you anything? I don't get any web browser popping up in Windows, at any rate.

I should have mentioned that Windows is my primary OS. I created the Ubuntu VM yesterday just to see if this was a problem with me being a Windows+Cygwin user (wouldn't be the first time). Without curl installed on Ubuntu, calling (tumblesocks-api-user-info) gives me the error "no such file or directory curl" like you said. Once I installed it, Firefox popped up and I was able to authorize successfully (though I did have to followDaniel Gempesaw's instructions - maybe you should byte-compile oauth.el yourself?). So that seems to suggest there's another problem specific to Windows users.

However, the odd thing is that I know I have curl installed through Cygwin, and that Emacs can access it. I did notice curl was being called, so I tested to make sure. When I hit M-! (shell-command) and type curl --help, I get the proper help output, so it's in my path and callable.

On Windows, though, I don't seem to be getting the error message about curl. The message about "search failed" doesn't seem to be written in your code from a quick grep... Any other Unix utility dependencies I might be lacking on Windows?

[gcr]

Aha! I think I may have found the culprit for Windows.

I installed NTEmacs 24 on Windows 7, added Mramalade to my packages, and installed curl.

I then opened up my .emacs.d/elpa/oauth-1.0.3/oauth.el file (on my computer, this is C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\.emacs\...). I then just commented out/deleted the problem line in the oauth-fetch-token function, near L324:

; (delete-region (point-min) (+ (search-backward "\r\n") 2))

...Apparently it's not needed on Windows for some reason. I'll have to investigate why and find out the proper thing to do.

After commenting that and re-evaluating the function, I was able to authenticate with tumblr and view my dashboard.

If this solves your problem, it merits a patch to oauth.el. Let me know if commenting out that line fixes it.

[MatthewDarling]

Wow, yeah, it worked after that. It works just as well on Ubuntu too - almost like that line isn't needed on any OS.

Thanks for helping figure this out!