bug#18174: 24.4.50; user-uid no longer set

bug#18174: 24.4.50; user-uid no longer set

[Han Boetes]

c-h v user-uid shows this variable is no longer set. This problem didn't
exist with a the git version from 2 weeks ago.



In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.13 (x86_64-unknown-openbsd5.5)
 of 2014-07-24 on difool
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man
 --infodir=/usr/local/info --without-sound --without-jpeg --with-xpm
 --without-gif --without-x 'CFLAGS=-pipe -O2''

Configured features:
DBUS NOTIFY GNUTLS ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  global-edit-server-edit-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  size-indication-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A 
ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC 
O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B C-@ ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B C-w C-x C-s y C-x 
C-s C-x C-c ESC [ > 0 ; 9 5 ; 0 c ESC x i n s e r TAB 
f i l TAB RET \ * DEL DEL ESC [ > 0 ; 9 5 ; 0 c C-x 
b RET C-x k RET ESC [ > 0 ; 9 5 ; 0 c ESC x r e p o 
TAB r t TAB RET

Recent messages:
(No files need saving)
../.emacs.d/lisp/post.el: `flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either `cl-flet' or `cl-letf'.
Loading `post.el': old-style backquotes detected!
Modification-flag cleared
When done with a buffer, type C-x #
Back to top level.
When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
M-[ > is undefined
When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style/url hides /usr/local/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/url/url
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style/slovak hides /usr/local/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/language/slovak
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style/czech hides /usr/local/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/language/czech
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style/swedish hides /usr/local/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/obsolete/swedish
/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/tempo hides ~/.emacs.d/lisp/tempo
/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/progmodes/python hides ~/.emacs.d/lisp/python
/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/obsolete/longlines hides ~/.emacs.d/lisp/longlines
/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/textmodes/css-mode hides ~/.emacs.d/lisp/css-mode

Features:
(post nuke-whitespace pp shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug
message idna dired format-spec rfc822 mml 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 mule-util
help-fns xterm server easymenu pager auto-recomp cl-macs cl gv session
generic-x yaml-mode derived regexp-opt edit-server easy-mmode edmacro
kmacro cl-loaddefs cl-lib icomplete time-date paren tooltip electric
uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type tabulated-list newcomment
lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
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
dbusbind gfilenotify multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 103367 14435)
 (symbols 48 18743 1)
 (miscs 40 73 150)
 (strings 32 15365 4692)
 (string-bytes 1 458029)
 (vectors 16 9881)
 (vector-slots 8 361964 13098)
 (floats 8 82 518)
 (intervals 56 455 108)
 (buffers 960 17))

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# Han
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 \ \\  \__/ \__/           his keynote speech at the 1988 AppleFest
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   \_\\/~~\_/~~\_
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bug#18174: 24.4.50; user-uid no longer set

[Glenn Morris]

Han Boetes wrote:

> c-h v user-uid shows this variable is no longer set.

user-uid is a function, not a variable?

bug#18174: 24.4.50; user-uid no longer set

[Han Boetes]

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You tell me, your the expert. This line in my config used to work and all
of the sudden it doesn't work anymore.

(defconst emacs-tmp-dir
   (format "%s%s%s/" temporary-file-directory "emacs" user-uid))







# Han
-- 


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> Han Boetes wrote:
>
> > c-h v user-uid shows this variable is no longer set.
>
> user-uid is a function, not a variable?
>

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bug#18174: 24.4.50; user-uid no longer set

[Glenn Morris]

Please keep the debbugs address cc'd.

Han Boetes wrote:

> You tell me, your the expert. This line in my config used to work and all
> of the sudden it doesn't work anymore.
>
> (defconst emacs-tmp-dir
>    (format "%s%s%s/" temporary-file-directory "emacs" user-uid))

I can't find any Emacs version where

emacs -Q

reports `C-h v user-uid' as a defined variable.

If you can, please tell me.

bug#18174: 24.4.50; user-uid no longer set

[Paul Eggert]

All the uses I see of this idiom treat it as a function.  E.g., 
<http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoSave> says:

     (defconst emacs-tmp-dir
       (format "%s/%s%s/" temporary-file-directory "emacs" (user-uid)))

bug#18174: 24.4.50; user-uid no longer set

[Han Boetes]

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heh, that's funny. That's how I originally used it. Then discovered it was
a variable and changed the code and about a month later the variable is
dropped and the function with the same name is still there. I'm getting
dizzy.

Thanks for the heads up.




# Han
-- 


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> All the uses I see of this idiom treat it as a function.  E.g., <
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoSave> says:
>
>     (defconst emacs-tmp-dir
>       (format "%s/%s%s/" temporary-file-directory "emacs" (user-uid)))
>

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bug#18174: 24.4.50; user-uid no longer set

[Paul Eggert]

Han Boetes wrote:
> Thanks for the heads up.

You're welcome; closing the report.