Oh and here is backtrace, the auto-generated email was so long I just
thought it would be in there:

http://fpaste.org/103119/40051358/

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integer-or-marker-p nil)
  buffer-substring-no-properties(nil 9745)
  he-init-string(nil 9745)
  try-expand-line(nil)
  apply(try-expand-line nil)
  hippie-expand(nil)
  call-interactively(hippie-expand record nil)
  command-execute(hippie-expand record)
  execute-extended-command(nil "hippie-expand")
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Torbjørn Lindahl <
torbjorn.lindahl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I tried but don't know how to.
>
> I did this:
>
> 1. open a text file and apply major mode: "ESS[S] modedefined in
> 'ess.mode.el' , according to C-h m
> 2. Start R from that process (need to have R installed, a statistics
> program)
> 3. In the inferior R process, try running hippie-expand , that's how I got
> the error.
>
> I have been asking in #emacs @freenonde on how to load ess-mode from -Q,
> ill tell you when i know
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for the report, but please give us some (any!) details.
>> Can you give a recipe starting from emacs -Q that shows how to
>> reproduce the problem?
>>
>> Can you do:
>> M-x toggle-debug-no-error
>> repeat the problem, and send the backtrace?
>>
>> Buried in the automated part of your report, I see the problem was:
>>
>>    he-init-string: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil
>>
>
>
>
> --
> mvh
> Torbjørn Lindahl
>



-- 
mvh
Torbjørn Lindahl