From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4917: Error: Attempt to modify read-only object Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:01:37 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87pr7nqolw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Juri Linkov , 4917@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258072061 4239 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2009 00:27:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:27:41 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 01:27:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8k0i-0004Tq-3U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:27:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8k0h-0001N5-Ik for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:27:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8k0c-0001Mm-RD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:27:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8k0X-0001Kk-Sz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:27:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37902 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8k0X-0001Kc-Kc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:27:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:36105) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8k0X-0000sw-48 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:27:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nAD0RJXi010979; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:27:19 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nAD0F9F9009617; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:15:09 -0800 Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:15:09 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Juri Linkov Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:15:08 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 4917 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.12580707838763 (code B ref -1); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:15:08 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 13 Nov 2009 00:06:23 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nAD06LjW008760 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:06:22 -0800 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8jgD-00063L-7K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:06:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8jg7-00061x-OA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:06:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51574 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8jg7-00061t-IB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:06:15 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:37125 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8jg7-00062j-3b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:06:15 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.32.46.cable.starman.ee [82.131.32.46]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DE33F41EF for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:06:09 +0200 (EET) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:27:26 -0500 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:32580 Archived-At: Starting Emacs fails with the error: Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/juri/.emacs': error: Attempt to modify read-only object To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace. Starting Emacs with the `--debug-init' option displays: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Attempt to modify read-only object") delete(("\\`\357\273\277" . utf-8-with-signature) (("\\`BABYL OPTIONS:[ ]*-\\*-[ ]*rmail[ ]*-\\*-" . no-conversion) ("\\`\376\377" . utf-16be-with-signature) ("\\`\377\376" . utf-16le-with-signature) ("\\`\357\273\277" . utf-8-with-signature) ("\\`;ELC" . emacs-mule))) (setq auto-coding-regexp-alist (delete (rassoc ... auto-coding-regexp-alist) auto-coding-regexp-alist)) The reason of this error in .emacs is the lines that remove a match for `utf-8-with-signature' from `auto-coding-regexp-alist' that allows to always display the BOM (Byte-order mark signature) to be able to remove it without the need to visit files literally: (setq auto-coding-regexp-alist (delete (rassoc 'utf-8-with-signature auto-coding-regexp-alist) auto-coding-regexp-alist)) Before yesterday there were no problems with this. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/