From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#42589: 26.3; "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" Date: 30 Jul 2020 18:21:15 -0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. Message-ID: <20200730182115.20851.qmail@mail.muc.de> References: <48056d8a-46ce-41ec-bb01-5b841367268c@default> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5884"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: tin/2.4.4-20191224 ("Millburn") (FreeBSD/11.3-RELEASE-p9 (amd64)) Cc: 42589@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 20:22:20 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k1DC8-0001TS-DR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:22:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52830 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k1DC7-0003Mp-D1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k1DBs-0003LW-Rw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k1DBq-0002gX-K3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k1DBq-0006AV-GJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:22:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 42589 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 42589-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B42589.159613328623668 (code B ref 42589); Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 42589) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jul 2020 18:21:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36692 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k1DBG-00069g-A1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:18921 helo=mail.muc.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k1DBD-00069Q-Qk for 42589@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:21:24 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 20857 invoked by uid 3782); 30 Jul 2020 18:21:15 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:183710 Archived-At: Hello, Drew. In article you wrote: > emacs -Q > `M-x load-library dired-x' > `C-x d' for a dir that has a subdir > With cursor on a subdir line, `i', to insert its listing. > With cursor on the inserted-subdir heading line: `!'. > You get that raw error message. > `!' is not intended for directory heading lines. But the error > raised shouldn't be one you see. Yes, I've tried this in 26.3, and the error you've described is there. However, in master, this bug has been fixed. I haven't tried it in Emacs 27 yet, but if it's not fixed there yet, it's likely too late to fix it now. > In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) > of 2019-08-29 > Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd > Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.18362 > Configured using: > `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 > --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3'' -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).