From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Morgan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12380: other window related commands broken Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:19:02 -0700 Message-ID: <504D07C6.3080400@sprynet.com> References: <504A43D2.1010307@sprynet.com> <504A5866.9010009@gmx.at> <504A724B.3020202@sprynet.com> <504AFF67.7070600@gmx.at> <504BF230.1000805@sprynet.com> <504C69FE.7000208@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347225578 9348 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2012 21:19:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:19:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12380@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 09 23:19:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TAoun-0002ka-UQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAouI-0001Ge-BN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.65]:50617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAouI-0001GV-6z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [76.21.104.63] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1TAouF-0007nL-Q5; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:19:04 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <504C69FE.7000208@gmx.at> X-ELNK-Trace: f1ad82a4556da985904be2c59b54ee5a9ef193a6bfc3dd48acb8858a4225647f1673b035093753831e3821db987f1b31350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 76.21.104.63 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:64020 Archived-At: On 9/9/2012 3:05 AM, martin rudalics wrote: > > First, here is what the debugger says when I try to "Send Bug > Report:..." > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > > file-name-directory(nil) > > byte-code("\300\301\302\303\304!!\"\305BC\207" [format "hides > > \\(%s.*\\)" file-name-directory locate-library "simple.el" (1 > > font-lock-warning-face)] 5) > > I don't understand why it doesn't find this. Does evaluating > > (locate-library "simple.el") > > always fail on your system? If so, what is your value of the variable > `load-path'? > Ken Brown explained this one. I haven't loaded the emacs-el cygwin package. > ... > > The problem is fixed by setting split-width-threshold to 500. > > nil should be more intuitive. > > > I did try setting it to nil as the variable's documentation > > suggests and the customization dialog told me the value of the variable > > needed to be an integer. Don't know if it accepted nil anyway or > > rejected it or what, but 500 sure works. Thanks again. > > In the dialog you are not allowed to insert nil in the field reserved > for numbers. You should use the "Value Menu" button and select "nil" > from the choices presented there. Please try again. Ah, that's how you use that customization buffer thingie. I've paid it and customizations as little attention as possible since they appeared (I said long-suffering, but maybe just unsufferably lazy). "Value Menu" indeed does the trick. > ... > martin > Doug