bug#755: 23.0.60; ns-cursor-blink-rate: symbol's value as variable is void

bug#755: 23.0.60; ns-cursor-blink-rate: symbol's value as variable is void

[Clifford Wulfman]

On start-up from a fresh cvs-build, I get an error saying
  Symbol's value as variable is void: ns-cursor-blink-rate



In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.4.0, *Step 9.0)
  of 2008-08-20 on hagen.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 49.46.48
configured using `configure  '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: nil
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: nil
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<escape> x m e s s SPC <backspace> C-g C-x b * M e
SPC <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> s-c <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-r
eport>

Recent messages:
or: Symbol's value as variable is void: ns-cursor-blink-rate
Quit

bug#755: 23.0.60; ns-cursor-blink-rate: symbol's value as variable is void

[David Reitter]

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Thanks for reporting this problem.

On 20 Aug 2008, at 20:19, Clifford Wulfman wrote:

> On start-up from a fresh cvs-build, I get an error saying
> Symbol's value as variable is void: ns-cursor-blink-rate

Can you please start Emacs with "-Q" , e.g. as

/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q

... does this still occur?
What happens if you move ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Emacs.plist out  
of the way?

- D

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bug#755: marked as done (23.0.60; ns-cursor-blink-rate: symbol's value as variable is void)

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From: Clifford Wulfman <cwulfman@gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; ns-cursor-blink-rate: symbol's value as variable is void
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:19:16 -0400
Message-ID: <C0CC18F7-659D-4A4B-850C-D46B00F885B3@gmail.com>

On start-up from a fresh cvs-build, I get an error saying
  Symbol's value as variable is void: ns-cursor-blink-rate



In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.4.0, *Step 9.0)
  of 2008-08-20 on hagen.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 49.46.48
configured using `configure  '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: nil
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: nil
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<escape> x m e s s SPC <backspace> C-g C-x b * M e
SPC <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> s-c <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-r
eport>

Recent messages:
or: Symbol's value as variable is void: ns-cursor-blink-rate
Quit



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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Clifford Wulfman <cwulfman@gmail.com>
> Date: 22 August 2008 08:13:53 EDT
> To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: bug#755: 23.0.60; ns-cursor-blink-rate: symbol's value  
> as variable is void
>
> David,
>
> 	This problem went away in a new build shortly after I reported it:  
> I've been following the discussion on emacs-devel and I see that  
> there were problems with a patch which were subsequently resolved.   
> Just to make sure, I just now started Emacs with -Q as you ask, and  
> it seems to run fine; ditto with moving org.gnu.Emacs.plist.
>
> 	Thanks for getting back to me, though!  I'm a long-time emacs user  
> and I'm really happy to see this Cocoa implementation reaching  
> maturity -- great work!  Be sure to let me know if there's anything  
> else I can do: my C-coding skills are non-existent, and my Lisp is  
> too rusty for me to be of much use, but I'd be happy to help out if  
> I can be of any service.
>
> --Cliff Wulfman
>
> On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:36 AM, David Reitter wrote:
>
>> Thanks for reporting this problem.
>>
>> On 20 Aug 2008, at 20:19, Clifford Wulfman wrote:
>>
>>> On start-up from a fresh cvs-build, I get an error saying
>>> Symbol's value as variable is void: ns-cursor-blink-rate
>>
>> Can you please start Emacs with "-Q" , e.g. as
>>
>> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
>>
>> ... does this still occur?
>> What happens if you move ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Emacs.plist  
>> out of the way?
>>
>> - D
>


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