Re: widget-mouse-face problem

[bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)]

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> i'm using a very recent emacs 23 compiled from CVS. i usually run it
> from a screen session and use emacsclient -t in a urxvt, and,
> occasionally, emacsclient -c to run an X instance. after i do the
> latter, trying to enter any buffer containing widgets (e.g. a
> customization buffer or an emacs-w3m page) fails with the following
> error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Symbol widget-mouse-face may not be buffer-local")
>   make-local-variable(widget-mouse-face)
>   Custom-mode()
>   custom-buffer-create-internal(((widget-mouse-face custom-variable)) nil)
>   custom-buffer-create(((widget-mouse-face custom-variable)) "*Customize Option: Widget Mouse Face*")
>   customize-variable(widget-mouse-face)
>   call-interactively(customize-variable t nil)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
>
> (this is when i try to customize widget-mouse-face itself; similar
> errors occur in the other cases). if i ask for the value of
> widget-mouse-face, it's usually set to 'highlight.
>
> Does this ring any bell?

Variable can't be made both buffer local (make-local-variable) and frame
local (make-variable-frame-local). Do you use color-theme?

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Johan Bockgård