Error message on elfeed-add-feed on OS X

[sgtpep]

First of all, thank you for your great alternative feed reader. It seems like minimalistic newsbeuter done right. Second, I'm totally noob to Emacs, and try using its great addons before I learnt the editor itself.

When I call elfeed-add-feed function the error message says "Symbol's function definition is void: x-get-selection-value". Maybe it's because of the absence of X11-related functions on Emacs for OS X.

[skeeto]

The function was misnamed, unfortunately, because that's a general clipboard access function. It just happens to talk to X on certain platforms. It works fine in Windows, for example. The misnaming will become even more obvious when Wayland starts replacing X, with fewer and fewer platforms where Emacs is actually talking to an X server.

It's supposed to work on OS X, too, but this may be a bug in Emacs. What version of Emacs are you using? Do you have an x-selection-value function defined on your platform? What about ns-get-selection-internal? I don't have a Mac, nor access to one, so I can't check for myself.

[sgtpep]

Sorry for not posting this earlier.

• Emacs version: GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) – the actual version downloaded from this site http://emacsformacosx.com/.
• Both functions seems to be defined: (fboundp 'x-selection-value) and (fboundp 'ns-get-selection-internal) get t.

Now I understand that this issue may not be relevant to Elfeed, but thank you for giving your attention to it.

[sgtpep]

Here's the compile log, if it could be helful:

Compiling file /Users/danil/.emacs.d/elpa/elfeed-20140509.839/elfeed-db.el at Fri May  9 22:20:24 2014
Entering directory `/Users/danil/.emacs.d/elpa/elfeed-20140509.839/'
elfeed-db.el:255:1:Warning: Unused lexical variable `cmpfun'

Compiling file /Users/danil/.emacs.d/elpa/elfeed-20140509.839/elfeed-lib.el at Fri May  9 22:20:26 2014

Compiling file /Users/danil/.emacs.d/elpa/elfeed-20140509.839/elfeed-pkg.el at Fri May  9 22:20:26 2014

Compiling file /Users/danil/.emacs.d/elpa/elfeed-20140509.839/elfeed-search.el at Fri May  9 22:20:26 2014

Compiling file /Users/danil/.emacs.d/elpa/elfeed-20140509.839/elfeed-show.el at Fri May  9 22:20:27 2014

Compiling file /Users/danil/.emacs.d/elpa/elfeed-20140509.839/elfeed.el at Fri May  9 22:20:27 2014

In end of data:
elfeed.el:407:1:Warning: the function `x-get-selection-value' is not known to
    be defined.

Compiling file /Users/danil/.emacs.d/elpa/elfeed-20140509.839/xml-query.el at Fri May  9 22:20:28 2014

[sgtpep]

Just want to note, that Emacs for X11 on OS X installed with brew install emacs --with-x don't complain about x-get-selection-value.

[oystersauce8]

This issue can probably be closed now.
(Upgrading to elfeed >= 2.0.1 should resolve the issue, because it includes commit d54bc55)

[skeeto]

Closed by d54bc55. Thanks, @oystersauce8.