From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: selection-coding-system
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfxs83iod.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6163t52921.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 22 May 2008 19:49:58 -0400")
> If I do `C-h C RET' I get that error, and doing describe-variable on
> `selection-coding-system' gives:
> selection-coding-system is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> It is void as a variable.
> Clicking on the `C source code' link results in an error: Search failed:
> "\x1fVselection-coding-system "
> I see that selection-coding-system _is_ defined, using defcustom, in
> lisp/select.el, and was removed from C code on 2008-02-01, but something
> apparently still thinks it's defined in C code...
> Emacs is from CVS trunk, checked out about an hour ago, compiled with
> "make bootstrap".
I cannot reproduce this, do you still see it? Can someone else
reproduce it? Are you using a non-X11 build or somesuch?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-22 23:49 Symbol's value as variable is void: selection-coding-system Miles Bader
2008-05-22 23:54 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-23 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-05-27 3:10 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-27 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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