From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 8256@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:18:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr5a8s3qr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim_FpeGqDEeN0UJx6abjt4FJeV4Azf_wP1QiXJC@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:08:33 +0100")
> emacs -Q
> Paste to *scratch* this code:
> (defcustom my-dir nil
> "doc"
> :type 'directory)
> Eval it.
> M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
Problem here: nil is not a directory, so the above defcustom is not
valid. Oddly enough Customize does not signal the error, and instead
gets into a weird state. Once you set my-dir to a string, things work
much better.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-15 10:26 bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32 Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 11:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 12:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 14:50 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 Drew Adams
2011-03-15 15:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 16:01 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32 Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-15 16:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 17:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-22 20:25 ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-15 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-15 17:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 18:04 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 Drew Adams
2011-03-15 18:11 ` Lennart Borgman
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