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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comparing last modification time without dired?
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:58:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnoji5o0.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ioirqpez.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (Loris Bennett's message of "Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:24:20 +0100")

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Loris,

> Stealing your code, I get
>
> Wrong type argument: stringp, #<buffer alternative_cluster_software.org>
>
> as soon as I call my-buffer-file-newer-than-file-p
>
> However, if I run it with "emacs -q" it works.  So something in my
> .emacs must be screwing things up.  I thought maybe using uniqify was
> the problem, but toggling it didn't make any difference.
>
> Any ideas what the problem might be?

Bisect your .emacs.

> Cheers,
>
> Loris

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-07 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-07  7:29 Comparing last modification time without dired? Loris Bennett
2014-11-07  8:08 ` Michael Albinus
     [not found] ` <mailman.13098.1415347725.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-07  8:25   ` Loris Bennett
2014-11-07  8:50     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-07  9:05     ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]     ` <mailman.13102.1415351159.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-07 10:24       ` Loris Bennett
2014-11-07 11:58         ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2014-11-07 12:04         ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-11-07 14:38 ` Drew Adams

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