From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 16235@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16235: 24.3.50; `dired-uncache' when tried `dired-do-chmod': (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:43:35 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <532fa0c6-f68a-46d0-ac35-8bf40e5aa6d3@default> (raw)
This was from my setup, not emacs -Q.
I used `M' in Dired, and entered "a-w" as the argument, then OK'd
modifying the marked files. I got this backtrace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
find-file-name-handler(nil dired-uncache)
dired-uncache(nil)
dired-do-redisplay(nil)
dired-do-chmod(nil)
call-interactively(dired-do-chmod nil nil)
command-execute(dired-do-chmod)
None of the functions listed in the backtrace are from my code; all are
the vanilla versions.
However, this happened only once. I could not reproduce it thereafter,
in either my setup or emacs -Q. If it helps somehow, fine. If not,
feel free to close it.
Looking at the code for `dired-do-redisplay', it seems that when I
invoked `dired-do-chmod' (in Dired, of course) the value of
`dired-directory' was nil.
The doc string for `dired-directory' does not describe any situation in
which it can be or should be nil. It says only that the value is a
string or a non-empty list.
Is the doc string incomplete? Is it a bug that somehow it had the value
nil (in Dired)? Nil is the default value. And thatit seems to be the
value of the variable in any non-Dired buffer.
I would think that, at the very least:
1. The doc string should mention what a nil value means.
2. The code should check that the variable is non-nil, and provide a
better error message for the nil case than just wrong-type-argument.
`dired-directory' is not mentioned in the Elisp manual.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2013-12-22 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 115700 xfq.free@gmail.com-20131222231942-q8ftfeg3ft2a1t83
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include
LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib'
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2013-12-24 4:43 Drew Adams [this message]
2014-02-05 22:24 ` bug#16235: 24.3.50; `dired-uncache' when tried `dired-do-chmod': (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) Glenn Morris
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