bug#11842: *Compile-Log*: Don't know how to compile nil

bug#11842: *Compile-Log*: Don't know how to compile nil

[Marius Hofert]

Hi,

I would like to report a bug of Emacs, version:

,----[ M-x version ]
| GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2012-07-01 on rhenium, modified by Debian
`----

Whenever I open a .tex file (LaTeX), a buffer named "*Compile-Log*" pops up,
containing "Error: Don't know how to compile nil". This error message is
appended to *Compile-Log* each time I open a .tex document. It seems that this
bug is related to AUCTeX. The only thing I found is:

,----
| http://old.nabble.com/bug-11837%3A-24.1.50--*Compile-Log*-Error%3A-Don%27t-know-how-to-compile-nil-td34099807.html
`----

which means that I am not alone. Hopefully, it is not too difficult to fix, it's
quite annoying.

Cheers,

Marius

bug#11842: *Compile-Log*: Don't know how to compile nil

[Marius Hofert]

I've never used "slime" before (or at least not that I know of). Not sure if
this is the source of the bug.

jasox lispy <jasox.lispy@gmail.com> writes:

> I have same bug on emacs 24.1.50.1, but I found out that my slime conf
> was reason for that bug.
> Here is my slime-conf.el file, this works well on emacs23.
>
> (eval-after-load "slime"
>   '(progn
>      (setq slime-lisp-implementations
> 	   '((sbcl ("/usr/bin/sbcl"))))
>      (slime-setup '(
> 		    slime-autodoc
> 		    slime-editing-commands
> 		    slime-fancy-inspector
> 		    slime-fontifying-fu
> 		    slime-fuzzy
> 		    slime-indentation
> 		    slime-mdot-fu
> 		    slime-package-fu
> 		    slime-references
> 		    slime-repl
> 		    slime-sbcl-exts
> 		    slime-scratch
> 		    slime-xref-browser
> 		    ))
>      (slime-autodoc-mode)
>      (setq slime-complete-symbol*-fancy t)
>      (setq slime-complete-symbol-function
>   'slime-fuzzy-complete-symbol)))
>
> (require 'slime)
>
>

bug#11842: *Compile-Log*: Don't know how to compile nil

[Glenn Morris]

Marius Hofert wrote:

> The only thing I found is:
>
> ,----
> | http://old.nabble.com/bug-11837%3A-24.1.50--*Compile-Log*-Error%3A-Don%27t-know-how-to-compile-nil-td34099807.html
> `----
>
> which means that I am not alone.

Well no; that points to an existing Emacs bug report. So there was
really no need for you to open another report that just says the same
thing.

The canonical location of your "old.nabble.com" link is:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11837

I don't know what value nabble is supposed to add to bug-gnu-emacs.

bug#11842: *Compile-Log*: Don't know how to compile nil

[Marius Hofert]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Marius Hofert wrote:
>
>> The only thing I found is:
>>
>> ,----
>> |
>> http://old.nabble.com/bug-11837%3A-24.1.50--*Compile-Log*-Error%3A-Don%27t-know-how-to-compile-nil-td34099807.html
>> `----
>>
>> which means that I am not alone.
>
> Well no; that points to an existing Emacs bug report. So there was
> really no need for you to open another report that just says the same
> thing.

The reason I opened the bug report was that I did not see any action around the
link / replies etc. I just wasn't sure this was a proper bug report.

>
>
> The canonical location of your "old.nabble.com" link is:
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11837

Thanks.

>
>
> I don't know what value nabble is supposed to add to bug-gnu-emacs.

I really don't know why this nabble-stuff is coming up all the time. There is no
added value. It's the same within the R community -- you search for something,
you end up at nabble... it's annoying (imho).