From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#4560: 23.1.50; (string-match "string" nil) error when typing `M-x help RET' Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:52:29 +0300 Message-ID: <87ws3mjg76.fsf@kobe.laptop> Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas , 4560@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 1253953791 24624 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2009 08:29:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:29:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 10:29:45 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 1MrSf1-0004rK-RC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:29:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MrSf1-0007Rw-7j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:29:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrSJI-0001id-30 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrSJC-0001hN-NI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37030 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MrSJC-0001hK-Hx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:52000) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrSJB-0003rk-Vm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:07:10 -0400 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 n8Q8759O016661; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:07:05 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8Q805Bb014753; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:00:05 -0700 Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:00:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Giorgos Keramidas Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:00:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 4560 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.125395156413882 (code B ref -1); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:00:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 26 Sep 2009 07:52:44 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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By typing `M-x help RET' I expected to see the same prompt that is displayed by , but instead of that a snapshot of Emacs built from the Git mirror of the repository throws me into the debugger at: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) string-match("%THIS-KEY%" nil) help() call-interactively(help t nil) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) The last changeset I have in my local Git clone is: commit f6829d72c1b405d6c43caa554c2123f41917e358 Author: Chong Yidong Date: Fri Sep 25 22:04:07 2009 +0000 * files.el (safe-local-eval-forms): Allow time-stamp in before-save-hook (Bug#4554). I'm updating a local mirror of the CVS repository now to check if this is an artifact of the Git mirror. In the meantime, does this seem like a bug in `M-x help' or like something we recently changed in the behavior of `string-match'? In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-unknown-freebsd9.0, GTK+ Version 2.16.6) of 2009-09-26 on kobe configured using `configure '--prefix=/opt/emacs' '--with-x' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: el_GR.ISO8859-7 value of $LC_CTYPE: el_GR.ISO8859-7 value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: C value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: greek-iso-8bit-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: erc-list-mode: t erc-menu-mode: t erc-button-mode: t erc-netsplit-mode: t erc-track-mode: t erc-track-minor-mode: t erc-match-mode: t erc-notify-mode: t erc-autojoin-mode: t erc-services-mode: t erc-networks-mode: t erc-pcomplete-mode: t erc-ring-mode: t erc-log-mode: t erc-stamp-mode: t erc-irccontrols-mode: t erc-noncommands-mode: t erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t erc-readonly-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t cua-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: RET C-x C-b s a RET C-x b d e m o RET C-x b n u x RET C-x b d a r k RET C-l C-x b n u x RET C-x b s c r a RET ESC x t o g g TAB d e b u TAB e TAB RET ESC x h e l p RET ESC O A ESC [ 1 ; 2 B ESC [ 1 ; 2 B ESC [ 1 ; 2 B ESC [ 1 ; 2 B ESC [ 1 ; 2 B ESC [ 1 ; 2 B ESC [ 1 ; 2 B ESC w C-] RET C-y RET ESC x r e p o r t - TAB b u TAB RET Recent messages: #Linux modes: +nc #Linux was created on Tuesday 1999/03/30 04:13:13 Updating buffer list... Formats have changed, recompiling...done Updating buffer list...done Commands: m, u, t, RET, g, k, S, D, Q; q to quit; h for help Debug on Error enabled globally Entering debugger... Quit Mark set Load-path shadows: None found.