From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [Bug] in newcomment.el Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:08:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87txkvjqis.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371575342 27168 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2013 17:09:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:09:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 18 19:09:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UozOo-00050I-0C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:08:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UozOn-0007Tf-Dw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60111) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UozOZ-0007QV-Pn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:08:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UozOY-0004qa-Sr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35254) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UozOY-0004qU-Lm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UozON-0004Ba-TW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:08:27 +0200 Original-Received: from e178188064.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.188.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:08:27 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178188064.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:08:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 51 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178188064.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:K39GXPRtAnZ6B6e7bLQraKuVfww= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91589 Archived-At: Hi List, newcomment.el uses (line 477) ,------------------------------------ | (if (looking-at comment-start-skip) `------------------------------------ in function ,-------------------------------------------------------- | (defun comment-search-forward (limit &optional noerror) `-------------------------------------------------------- what gives an error if `comment-start-skip' is nil, as in sql-mode. E.g. this small file (sql-test.sql) in a buffer in sql-mode ,---------------------- | -- * data load | -- ** data for table1 | drop table1; `---------------------- with point at (point-min), causes an error when this command is applied: ,---------------------------------- | M-: (comment-search-forward 15 t) `---------------------------------- ,---------------------------------------------------------------- | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) | looking-at(nil) | comment-search-forward(15 t) | eval((comment-search-forward 15 t) nil) | eval-expression((comment-search-forward 15 t) nil) | call-interactively(eval-expression nil nil) `---------------------------------------------------------------- because 'C-h v comment-start-skip' gives ,------------------------------------------------------------- | comment-start-skip is a variable defined in `newcomment.el'. | Its value is nil `------------------------------------------------------------- -- cheers, Thorsten