This bug was detected while running docker.el and other packages that depend on tablist [1]. Tablist is an extension of tabulated-list-mode that provides the ability to filter the tabulated list via an expression language. I am not the author of tablist however the author is aware of this issue. In 27.0.90, tablist is now giving an error when entering its expression editor. In the debugger I traced the error to wisent-total-conflicts in lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/comp.el line 2273, in commit 390b4bc1e25fe691548d7ec982eb2f7027fe26a3 [2]. That commit introduced a mechanism to ignore “expected conflicts” via a symbol whose name is constructed on the fly like this: (format "wisent-%s--expected-conflicts" (replace-regexp-in-string "\\.el$" "" src) However, this code doesn’t handle the case where the filename “src” is nil. To reproduce the issue, compile a grammar like this: (require 'semantic/wisent/comp) (require 'semantic/wisent/wisent) (defvar tablist-filter-wisent-grammar '( ;; terminals ;; Use lowercase for better looking error messages. (operand unary-operator binary-operator or and not) ;; terminal associativity & precedence ((left binary-operator) (left unary-operator) (left or) (left and) (left not)) ;; rules (filter-or-empty ((nil)) ((?\( ?\)) nil) ((filter) $1)) (filter ((operand) $1) ;;Named filter ((operand binary-operator operand) `(,(intern $2) ,$1 ,$3)) ((unary-operator operand) `(,(intern $1) ,$2)) ((not filter) `(not ,$2)) ((filter and filter) `(and ,$1 ,$3)) ((filter or filter) `(or ,$1 ,$3)) ((?\( filter ?\)) $2)))) (wisent-compile-grammar tablist-filter-wisent-grammar) ;; error => “replace-regexp-in-string: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil” Thank you, Neil [1] https://github.com/politza/tablist [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-27&id=390b4bc1e25fe691548d7ec982eb2f7027fe26a3