From: Paul van Gelder <paul.vangelder@xs4all.nl>
To: 65629@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65629: 29.1; Dictionary-search on Windows : wrong-type-argument stringp nil in dictionary-read-reply-and-split()
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:57:02 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58455611.354890.1693407422795@kpc.webmail.kpnmail.nl> (raw)
Hello,
Apologies in advance if I am doing something wrong; this is the first time I am reporting an Emacs bug. I've checked https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsBugTracker for what to do, but I am sure I may have missed something.
I've checked https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?include=subject%3Adictionary;package=emacs and searched for dictionary, and it seems the below bug has not yet been reported.
The following bug occurs/doesn't occur as follows, which makes me think it may be due to Windows OS:
- Windows, emacs 29.1, my config -> bug
- Windows, emacs 29.1, -Q -> bug
- MacOS, emacs 30.0.50, -Q -> no bug, works fine
When I start emacs -Q, I do the following to reliably recreate the bug:
M-x dictionary-search RET Hello RET
I have been trying:
M-x trace-function RET dictionary-do-search RET
followed by:
M-x dictionary-search RET Hello RET
to find out more, but it didn't help me as it seems in all 3 scenarios the parameter sare exactly the same:
"Hello" "*" and dictionary-display-search-result
I also read dictionary-read-reply-and-split() in dictionary.el as well as dictionary-read-reply, dictionary-split-string, but my elisp knowledge is not good enough to understand what's going on, but I am guessing either 'reply' or 'reply-list' are empty while expecting a string? Not sure how I could check further and help find a patch.
Please let me know if there's additional steps I can take to try and find out the problem/find a solution.
Thanks for all your work,
Paul
* Backtrace
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
dictionary-read-reply-and-split()
dictionary-do-search("Hello" "*" dictionary-display-search-result)
dictionary-new-search-internal("Hello" "*" dictionary-display-search-result)
dictionary-new-search(("Hello" . "*"))
dictionary-search("Hello" "*")
funcall-interactively(dictionary-search "Hello" "*")
command-execute(dictionary-search record)
execute-extended-command(nil "dictionary-search" "dictionary-search")
funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "dictionary-search" "dictionary-search")
command-execute(execute-extended-command)
* Bug report text
In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-07-31 built on
AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise (v10.0.2009.19045.3324)
Configured using:
'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation=aot
--without-compress-install --with-tree-sitter CFLAGS=-O2'
Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB
(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)
Important settings:
value of $LANG: ENG
locale-coding-system: cp1252
Major mode: Debugger
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
buffer-read-only: t
line-number-mode: t
indent-tabs-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
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password-cache json subr-x map byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile
dictionary dictionary-connection cl-loaddefs cl-lib rmc iso-transl
tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table
term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image
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tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs
theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties
overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap
hashtable-print-readable backquote threads w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty
make-network-process native-compile emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 85524 10022)
(symbols 48 8183 0)
(strings 32 24061 1514)
(string-bytes 1 696686)
(vectors 16 16384)
(vector-slots 8 350534 14674)
(floats 8 51 45)
(intervals 56 316 0)
(buffers 984 15))
next reply other threads:[~2023-08-30 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-30 14:57 Paul van Gelder [this message]
2023-08-30 16:56 ` bug#65629: 29.1; Dictionary-search on Windows : wrong-type-argument stringp nil in dictionary-read-reply-and-split() Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-31 7:09 ` Paul van Gelder
2023-08-31 7:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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