Re: revert-buffer fails on cvs controlled .tex file

["David Rideout" <dprideout@gmail.com>]

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I enclose the tex file and enough of the CVS/ subdirectory to
reproduce the error.
Indeed the error seems to depend upon the contents of the tex file.

Regards,
David Rideout

On Dec 3, 2007 5:35 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>   > Would someone please fix this, then ack?
>   >
>   > Message-ID: <1ce81abb0712011352n550ce34s358f29a5bd8c8ad9@mail.gmail.com>
>   > Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:52:05 -0500
>   > From: "David Rideout" <dprideout@gmail.com>
>   > To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>   > MIME-Version: 1.0
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>   > Subject: revert-buffer fails on cvs controlled .tex file
>   >
>   > Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
>   > usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>   >
>   > Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list,
>   > and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.
>   >
>   > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
>   > and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>   > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   > First I launch emacs, loading a cvs controlled .tex file 'turtles.tex':
>   >
>   > emacs -q -no-site-file turtles.tex
>   >
>   > The status bar reads 'CVS:1.35', so emacs recognizes this file as controlled
>   > by cvs.
>   >
>   > Then I enter M-x revert-buffer.  I answer 'yes' to the prompt, and get an
>   > error:
>   >
>   > coding-system-get: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil
>   >
>   > The file does not revert.
>
> I cannot reproduce this.
> Does the turtles.tex file have any local variables that deal with the
> coding system?
>
>
>   > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   > If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
>   > please include the output from the following gdb commands:
>   >     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
>   > If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
>   > /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/DEBUG for instructions.
>   >
>   >
>   > In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.14)
>   >  of 2007-11-06 on xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
>   > Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
>   > configured using `configure  '--build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
>   > '--host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
>   > '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr'
>   > '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc'
>   > '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib'
>   > '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var'
>   > '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
>   > '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-pop' '--with-sound' '--with-gtk'
>   > 'build_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
>   > 'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF
>   > -DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=16777216 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Hmm, this looks like a huge waste, I'll report it to Fedora.
>

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