From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5981: 24.0.50; Attempt to set a constant symbol: enable-multibyte-characters Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:50:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83hbn65x2v.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271779227 21761 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2010 16:00:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:00:27 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 20 18:00:26 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4Fs9-0006oA-H1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:00:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4Fs8-0001WW-FV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O4FrL-0001Ia-Uu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44830 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4FrD-0001En-Ll for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4FrA-000567-L6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4FrA-00055g-8V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4Fl0-0006xo-6y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:53:02 -0400 Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 5981 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 5981@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-Received: via spool by 5981-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D5981.127177877126754 (code D ref 5981); Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5981-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Apr 2010 15:52:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4Fkn-0006xO-Nj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.93]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4EmX-0006Nr-C2 for 5981-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from toip4.srvr.bell.ca ([209.226.175.87]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20100420145014.HNAJ19420.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@toip4.srvr.bell.ca> for <5981-done@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:50:14 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAKNVzUtGN5OL/2dsb2JhbACcAXK9SoUPBA Original-Received: from bas1-montreal42-1178047371.dsl.bell.ca (HELO ceviche.home) ([70.55.147.139]) by toip4.srvr.bell.ca with ESMTP; 20 Apr 2010 11:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 75CDC660D2; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:50:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83hbn65x2v.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:48:08 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:52:47 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:53:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:36368 Archived-At: > With today's trunk, trying to display the HELLO file, like this: > emacs -Q > C-h H > Causes Emacs to signal an error: > Attempt to set a constant symbol: enable-multibyte-characters Fixed. The problem was that view-hello-file did (setq-default 'enable-multibyte-characters) so as to "DTRT" in a unibyte session. The previous code had a bug which made it allow this even though enable-multibyte-characters is read-only. I've fixed this bug in the new variable code, which is why you now saw this error. Since unibyte sessions are deprecated, I just removed the code (the alternative would have been to revert to using default-enable-multibyte-characters, since this variable has the curious property of being real-only except when accessed via its default-enable-multibyte-characters alias: another good reason to dislike it). Stefan