For some files under RCS version control, `vc-annotate' now fails with error `(wrong-type-argument integer-or-marker-p nil)'. I think the problem is with the variable `b' whose dynamic binding was used by `gather' and set by `incg' (local functions in `vc-rcs-parse'), prior to r114131. Sorry, I haven't been able to craft an example RCS master file that reproduces the problem. The top of the stack trace looks like this. Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integer-or-marker-p nil) buffer-substring-no-properties(nil 6747) (let ((x (buffer-substring-no-properties (cadr pairs) (car pairs)))) (message "%d %d %s" (cadr pairs) (car pairs) x) (setq acc (cons x acc))) (while pairs (let ((x (buffer-substring-no-properties (cadr pairs) (car pairs)))) (message "%d %d %s" (cadr pairs) (car pairs) x) (setq acc (cons x acc))) (setq pairs (cddr pairs))) (let ((pairs (cons e (append @-holes (list b)))) acc) (while pairs (let ((x (buffer-substring-no-properties (cadr pairs) (car pairs)))) (message "%d %d %s" (cadr pairs) (car pairs) x) (setq acc (cons x acc))) (setq pairs (cddr pairs))) (apply (quote concat) acc)) In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2013-09-19 on 57172UHB Bzr revision: 114395 michael.albinus@gmx.de-20130919110801-tl6ne4cxp0bmx0kf Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --prefix c:/emacs/emacs-114395 --enable-locallisppath=%emacs_dir%/../site-lisp 'CPPFLAGS=-I G:/usr/include -I C:/GnuWin32/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L G:/usr/lib -L C:/GnuWin32/lib'' Important settings: value of $LANG: ENG locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x r - e - b Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process w32notify w32 multi-tty emacs)