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kevin bailey <kbailey@freewayprojects.com> writes:

> i'm editing files over FTP using standard debian sarge emacs21 on the
> console and i keep getting the system bell beeping and a message appearing
> saying
>
> Wrong type argument: integerp, nil
>
> messages on google groups all relate to email reading which i am not using
> emacs for.
>
> any pointers?

M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET

Then do whatever you do to get the error again, and show us the
*Backtrace* buffer contents.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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