error: Invalid face, nano-modeline-active-name

[Zilong-Li]

Hi, rougier

Thanks for sharing this repo. I tried to install many times on different machines. When the installation was finished, there is always this error error: Invalid face, nano-modeline-active-name.

[rougier]

Can you try to install nano-modeline and check if it works?

[Zilong-Li]

I tried to install nano-modeline. it didn't work. it's pity that have to abandon the nano-modeline in my configuration.

[rougier]

What do you mean it didn't work ? Note that with the new version, you need to activate dfor any mode you like and/or setup a default modeline.

[lbenet]

Hi! First, thanks for the great org file, not just from the literate configuration part, but also from the philosophy, including the esthetics! i truly like it and I'm learning a lot from it.

I run into the same issue: error: Invalid face, nano-modeline-active-name. I am using Emacs 29.1, which I guess is worth saying.

Following the suggestion (in the Warnings buffer), I loaded emacs in debug mode; this is what I get:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid face" nano-modeline-active-name)
  internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(nano-modeline-active-name :foreground "black" 0)
  set-face-attribute(nano-modeline-active-name nil :foreground "black" :inherit (nano-modeline-active nano-strong))
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/Users/benet/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 44274
  load-with-code-conversion("/Users/benet/.emacs.d/init.el" "/Users/benet/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
  load("/Users/benet/.emacs.d/init" noerror nomessage)
  startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x155f566d6d9d85>) #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x1f3c61addc0da035>) t)
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()

I went further commenting all lines with nano-modeline-active-name (as well as those nano-modeline-inactive-name, and others similar); lines 2197 till 2225. Now the error is Symbol's function definition is void: nano-modeline-mode, and the corresponding output from --debug-init is:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nano-modeline-mode)
  (nano-modeline-mode 1)
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/Users/benet/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 46623
  load-with-code-conversion("/Users/benet/.emacs.d/init.el" "/Users/benet/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
  load("/Users/benet/.emacs.d/init" noerror nomessage)
  startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x155f566d6d9d85>) #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x1f3c61addc0da035>) t)
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()

Any ideas of what to do?

[rougier]

With the newest version of the nano-modeline, there is no mode generic nano-modeline-mode. Instead, you need to activate it for any mode you want (including all modes at once). Have a look at documentation here

[alphanhp]

Hello Rougier, I'm suffering the same as above mentioned(and the same backtrace in debug-init). And I've activated nano-modeline-mode as document( add all the hook listed), but still as before.

I'm pretty love the "nano emacs". And I'm laypeople(or rookie) to programming, could I get some advice?
besides, whether OS(Windows）is a element to produce these?

[alphanhp]

and emacs is 29.1 @rougier

[rougier]

@alphanhp Can you open an issue at https://github.com/rougier/nano-modeline. It will be easier for me to debug.

[Safenein]

Hi rougier,

Same issue on fresh install.

Is there any update ?

[rougier]

With the newer nano-modeline you mean?

[Safenein]

I'm not sure, but I can reproduce this bug:

git clone https://github.com/rougier/dotemacs.git
mkdir ~/.emacs.org
emacs dotemacs/dotemacs

I hit <C-c><C-v>t to tangle.

Then:

ln -s ~/.emacs.org ~/.emacs.d
emacs

I wait for everything to download and compile. I restart and I get the error of this issue.

Maybe this dotfile is out-of-date because nano-modeline works fine when I use it in my personal config. It is also more than 1 year of inactivity in this repo, so maybe your configuration changed to adapt to updates but not on Github.

[rougier]

Ok, I'll need to update my dotemacs since I've moved back to regular configurtation (no litterate)