Todo mode crashes when activated in an empty, file-less buffer. Reproduced by the following recipe from Emacs -Q: 1. Switch to a new buffer, so that it's empty, and not connected to a file. 2. Run `M-x todo-mode'. This should produce the following error message: todo-mode: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.4) of 2014-11-19 on x240 Repository revision: f5d77aafa9d59c4afb13d744e67a0e4daf3be31a Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11601901 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie) Configured using: `configure --without-makeinfo' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Todo Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t visual-line-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Mark set todo-mode: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils todo-mode cl-loaddefs cl-lib diary-lib diary-loaddefs cal-menu easymenu calendar cal-loaddefs time-date tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 88280 6384) (symbols 48 19439 0) (miscs 40 47 110) (strings 32 15157 4094) (string-bytes 1 473901) (vectors 16 10700) (vector-slots 8 408232 3709) (floats 8 71 76) (intervals 56 196 0) (buffers 976 11) (heap 1024 33888 1101))