From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.50; vc-checkin from vc-dired buffer gives (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:57:23 -0800 Message-ID: <200711111457.lABEvS7u010478@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <87d4ujlqkq.fsf@leeloo.anubex.internal> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194793276 3447 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2007 15:01:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Van Holder Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 11 16:01:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IrEJM-0001Ph-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:01:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrEJA-0007dL-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:01:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrEGg-0004LH-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:58:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrEGe-0004Hy-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:58:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrEGe-0004Hb-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IrEGd-0006TE-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:58:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lABEvS7u010478; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:57:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87d4ujlqkq.fsf@leeloo.anubex.internal> (Tim Van Holder's message of "Fri\, 09 Nov 2007 10\:24\:05 +0100") Original-Lines: 12 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82945 Archived-At: Tim Van Holder writes: > - C-x v d to open a dired buffer for a directory containing changed > files (CVS-controlled in my case) > - v = -> works fine, shows diff > - v v -> errors out with (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > > The error seems to be that vc-parent-buffer is nil, which makes sense > since vc-start-entry uses get-file-buffer to set it, and when in dired > mode there is no live buffer for the file yet. Thanks for your bug report. I checked in a fix.