Insert reference generates "Wrong type argument" about helm-bibtex HOT 8 CLOSED

I can't replicate this. Could you please show me the entry that's causing the problem? Thank you.

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The following entry did not work for me:

@Manual{wetterlund2013_if,
    file = {~/edoc/wetterlund2013.pdf},
    timestamp = {2015-01-13 013d},
    author = {Wetterlund, Kris},
    title = {If you Can't See It Don't Say It},
    year = 2013,
    date = {2013-7-3},
    publisher = {Museum-Ed},
    url = {http://tamtamsp.pressbooks.com/},
    tags = {:to read},
    keywords = {*oma exhibits}
}

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Weird, it works in my setup. Are you using the latest version from git master?

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I'm using helm-bibtex-20150129.2118 from melpa, so yes. Everything else is up to date as well. I'll see if I can isolate something and see if it's something in my setup somewhere. I tried just that one entry alone in a file and that didn't help.

Here's the top of the debug, in the meantime:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 10)
  s-left(1 10)
  #[(it) "\301\302�\"\303P\207" [--cl-var-- s-left 1 "."] 3]("Kris")
  mapcar(#[(it) "\301\302�\"\303P\207" [--cl-var-- s-left 1 "."] 3] ("Kris"))
  helm-bibtex-apa-format-authors("Wetterlund, Kris")
  helm-bibtex-apa-get-value("author" (("keywords" . "{*oma exhibits}") ("tags" . "{:to read}") ("url" . "{http://tamtamsp.pressbooks.com/}") ("publisher" . "{Museum-Ed}") ("date" . "{2013-7-3}") ("year" . "2013") ("title" . "{If you Can't See It Don't Say It}") ("author" . "{Wetterlund, Kris}") ("timestamp" . "{2015-01-13 013d}") ("file" . "{~/edoc/wetterlund2013.pdf}") ("=type=" . "Manual") ("=key=" . "wetterlund2013_if")))

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Huh, this doesn't make any sense at all. Where is the 10 in the s-left call coming from? It should be (s-left 1 "Kris") which gives us the first charakter of the first name.

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The 10 in s-left is coming from the position of the , on L522: else if (s-index-of "," a). Longer or shorter lasnames change the position of the , and throw a different error. I tried else if (s-contains? "," a) and the error was wrong-type-argument sequencep, t. So, the 10 is get:ting collected in the cl-loop somehow, I guess, but my lisp is pretty weak so I'll need to dig further. I have updated s.el and dash.el libraries, and cl-lib.el 0.5 installed, but maybe there's a clash with the emacs 24.3 cl-lib? I'm out of my depth, but will keep trying. Sorry for the mess.

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Okay, I upgraded to Emacs 24.4 and recompiled everything. It works now.

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Ok, glad you got it working.

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