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"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Loris,

> Stealing your code, I get
>
> Wrong type argument: stringp, #<buffer alternative_cluster_software.org>
>
> as soon as I call my-buffer-file-newer-than-file-p
>
> However, if I run it with "emacs -q" it works.  So something in my
> .emacs must be screwing things up.  I thought maybe using uniqify was
> the problem, but toggling it didn't make any difference.
>
> Any ideas what the problem might be?

Bisect your .emacs.

> Cheers,
>
> Loris

Best regards, Michael.