From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:52:16 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <414A2730.4060308@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095378778 24997 80.91.229.6 (16 Sep 2004 23:52:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 17 01:52:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C863K-00071q-00 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:52:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C8691-0003K1-Tv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:58:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C8691-0003Jw-A3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:58:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C868z-0003Jk-R9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:58:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C868z-0003Jh-PF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.4.58.12] (helo=horus.isnic.is) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C862v-0001sT-8g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:52:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (mail.fu-berlin.de [130.133.1.2]) by horus.isnic.is (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/isnic) with ESMTP id i8GNq9mC083771 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:52:10 GMT (envelope-from mod-submit@uni-berlin.de) Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1C862r-00001e-IB>; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:52:09 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 30 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de yKy4xJt6Xw7NHmIrvKB5kwvuFtDeNCc7ZtgNYSgc9XYHcoieU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:9031 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:9031 Seth B Schapiro ;011;wsen1; wrote: > When I try to open a file with no extension such as ".emacs" or a file > with the ".txt" extension, I receive the error message "Wrong type > argument: stringp, nil Does this happen when you invoke emacs from the command line with the -q --no-sit-file options? > If I open an emacs buffer, and select "File -> Open File" this problem > is no longer apparent. This issue began when a file had to be > recovered that was being edited within vi. runs the command find-file How did you open the file as described in the first paragraph, such that it caused the error? > Please let me know via email to "sbs1947@rit.edu" what can be done to > correct this problem C-h i d m emacs RET g Reporting Bugs RET ... M-x report-emacs-bug RET -- Kevin Rodgers