Re: patch: fix wrong-type-argument error in vc-registered

[Yoichi NAKAYAMA <yoichi@geiin.org>]

At Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:19:42 -0400,
Stefan wrote:
> 
> > For example, mime-view.el in EMIKO module
> > http://cvs.m17n.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/semi/mime-view.el?rev=1.150.2.33.2.38&only_with_tag=emiko-1_14&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> > calles set-auto-mode after setting buffer-file-name to non-absolute path
> > for highlighting.
> 
> mime-view.el should be fixed then: buffer-file-name needs to have an
> absolute path.  Several other packages rely on this.  Admittedly, it seems
> that vc-registered is the only function that's always used that relies on
> this, so fixing it will provide the illusion that things work, but in
> reality, they'll break with things like uniquify as well (to name one other
> case I happen to know of).

OK, I'll write to developers of mime-view.el.
By the way, the restriction should be documented on buffer-file-name<v>?
I found description for buffer-file-name<v> but not for the variable.

Regards,
-- 
Yoichi NAKAYAMA