Re: font locking problem

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Lowell Kirsh wrote:

> I am having emacs problems. First, here is my entire .emacs file:
> 
> (require 'font-lock)
> (require 'lazy-lock)
> (global-font-lock-mode t)
> (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
> 
> Now here's my problem: I start up (GNU) emacs and then try to visit a 
> java file. The computer beeps and in the minibuffer it says:
> 
> "Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil"
> 
> and doesn't display the file on the screen. But when I do a C-x b, it 
> shows that the file has been loaded into a buffer. And there's one more 
> problem - the java file buffer thinks it's been modified, even though it 
> hasn't. When visiting that buffer, I try to undo but there is "no more 
> undo information".
> 
> Any ideas? This seems like a bug to me, but I don't want to jump to 
> conclusions too soon.

Start emacs with the --debug-on-init option, to find out exactly where the
error occurs.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers