I recently upgraded to emacs 23.4 and found a rather obscure bug.  When invoked with –batch emacs behaves differently with the command (next-line) compared to when it is invoked without batch.  I had to switch to using (forward-line) in my code to work around this.  This behavior can be easily seen by running.

 

emacs –batch config.log --eval "(next-line 1)"

And you’ll see and End of buffer message.  While

 

emacs -Q config.log --eval "(next-line 1)"

 

Produces no such error.

 

 

Michael Rytting

Agilent Technologies

michael_rytting@agilent.com

719-590-3708