bug#49599: REPORT error BAD CONS CELL

bug#49599: REPORT error BAD CONS CELL

[david]

Hello people,

Apparently the global-map has a couple of bad cons cells in it.  I got the
following message when I was processing the map.  After that are a few
entries
from the map itself.

REPORT error BAD CONS CELL (menu-item tab bar ignore :filter
tab-bar-make-keymap)
(please work out how you did it if you can) press any key to continue.

..
(mouse-4 . mwheel-scroll)
(XF86WakeUp . ignore)
(tool-bar menu-item tool bar ignore :filter tool-bar-make-keymap)
(tab-bar menu-item tab bar ignore :filter tab-bar-make-keymap)
(C-f10 . buffer-menu-open)
(f10 . menu-bar-open)
..



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bug#49599: REPORT error BAD CONS CELL

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:15:33 -0600
> From: <david@ngdr.net>
> 
> Apparently the global-map has a couple of bad cons cells in it.  I got the
> following message when I was processing the map.  After that are a few
> entries
> from the map itself.
> 
> REPORT error BAD CONS CELL (menu-item tab bar ignore :filter
> tab-bar-make-keymap)
> (please work out how you did it if you can) press any key to continue.
> 
> ..
> (mouse-4 . mwheel-scroll)
> (XF86WakeUp . ignore)
> (tool-bar menu-item tool bar ignore :filter tool-bar-make-keymap)
> (tab-bar menu-item tab bar ignore :filter tab-bar-make-keymap)
> (C-f10 . buffer-menu-open)
> (f10 . menu-bar-open)
> ..

Please show the code which triggers this message.

Thanks.

bug#49599: REPORT error BAD CONS CELL

[david]

Well Gentlemen, this has turned out to be an interesting issue.

The error message comes from my code, which processes and displays keymap
information.  I wrote the part of the code that raised the error message
at
least 20 years ago and had forgotten about it.  Today, I extended the
message
to identify where it comes from.

The display code has been used many thousands of times, displaying many
keymaps, in Emacs versions dating back possibly as far as 18.59.  The code
has
been in use constantly since that time.  As suggested by what has
happened,
this is the first time that a problem has been flagged in normal use.

The format of Emacs' keymaps has been extended considerably in recent
years,
and the global-map element in question:
(tab-bar menu-item "tab bar" ignore :filter tab-bar-make-keymap)
is different enough to have caused the message.  Overall, this issue is an
example of how changing Emacs specifications can cause downstream, i.e.,
user,
problems.

I apologise for the bug report, there is no bug.  However, interesting
issues
have been raised, which I hope I have explained well enough to give cause
for
thought.

dajo


On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:23:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:15:33 -0600
>> From: <david@ngdr.net>
>> 
>> Apparently the global-map has a couple of bad cons cells in it.  I got
>> the
>> following message when I was processing the map.  After that are a few
>> entries
>> from the map itself.
>> 
>> REPORT error BAD CONS CELL (menu-item tab bar ignore :filter
>> tab-bar-make-keymap)
>> (please work out how you did it if you can) press any key to continue.
>> 
>> ..
>> (mouse-4 . mwheel-scroll)
>> (XF86WakeUp . ignore)
>> (tool-bar menu-item tool bar ignore :filter tool-bar-make-keymap)
>> (tab-bar menu-item tab bar ignore :filter tab-bar-make-keymap)
>> (C-f10 . buffer-menu-open)
>> (f10 . menu-bar-open)
>> ..
> 
> Please show the code which triggers this message.
> 
> Thanks.

bug#49599: REPORT error BAD CONS CELL

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:00:56 -0600
> From: <david@ngdr.net>
> Cc: <49599@debbugs.gnu.org>
> 
> I apologise for the bug report, there is no bug.  However,
> interesting issues have been raised, which I hope I have explained
> well enough to give cause for thought.

OK, thanks for telling us.  I'm therefore closing this bug report.

bug#49599: REPORT error BAD CONS CELL

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

<david@ngdr.net> writes:

> Apparently the global-map has a couple of bad cons cells in it.  I got the
> following message when I was processing the map.  After that are a few
> entries
> from the map itself.
>
> REPORT error BAD CONS CELL (menu-item tab bar ignore :filter
> tab-bar-make-keymap)
> (please work out how you did it if you can) press any key to continue.

I can't find the string "BAD CONS CELL" in the Emacs tree, but I may be
grepping for the wrong thing.  Or perhaps the message is from a
third-party package?

Do you have a recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", for how to reproduce
this problem?

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