From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: domq@google.com (Dominique Quatravaux)
Cc: 1106@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1106: last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:34:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vyrkpug.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
> Putting the following in one's .emacs causes Emacs to crash on
> startup:
>
> (setq file-coding-system-alist nil)
> (load "/dev/null")
>
> This happens because mule.el wrongly assumes that
> last-coding-system-used cannot be null on line 84.
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> of 2008-09-05 on vernadsky, modified by Ubuntu
I can't reproduce the crash with Emacs 22.2. Maybe it's due to a Debian
change?
Could you check if the crash happens with a vanille Emacs 22.2
downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ ?
Also, does the crash happen with Emacs CVS (or the Debian emacs-snapshot
package)?
Thanks.
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2008-10-08 16:34 Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-10-09 10:07 ` bug#1106: last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion Dominique Quatravaux
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2008-10-07 13:21 Dominique Quatravaux
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