From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kevin bailey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Wrong type argument: integerp, nil Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:29:57 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87u0dqdobv.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133638595 22354 80.91.229.2 (3 Dec 2005 19:36:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:36:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 03 20:36:33 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EidAI-0000pG-EF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 20:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EidAL-0004fW-5E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:35:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: southviewterrace.demon.co.uk Original-X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1133638198 18901 80.177.110.211 (3 Dec 2005 19:29:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:29:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136041 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31648 Archived-At: Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > kevin bailey 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. > thanks, the output just shoved on to the screen is: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integerp nil) set-file-modes("/tmp/#edit.php#" nil) tramp-set-auto-save-file-modes() run-hooks(auto-save-hook) so i take it that the ftp user i have logged in as is not allowed to write to /tmp. i wonder of this is trying to save it on the remote server. what i need to do now is find out how to set the autosave function to save to the local machine. thanks for your help - it'll help me track down further problems, kev