#1 Visit a file: C-x C-f test.js #2 Type this line: // emacs #3 Put the cursor on the second slash and type M-q (fill-paragraph) #4 Get an error: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Here's the debugger backtrace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) looking-at(nil) c-literal-limits(nil t) c-mask-paragraph(t nil fill-paragraph nil) c-fill-paragraph(nil) js-c-fill-paragraph(nil) fill-paragraph(nil t) call-interactively(fill-paragraph nil nil) command-execute(fill-paragraph) Thanks for your time. In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.3) of 2014-10-21 on bitzer.hoetzel.info Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11602000 System Description: Arch Linux Configured using: `configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro' Important settings: value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Javascript Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x C-f t e s t . j s M-q Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. c-literal-limits: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils js advice help-fns byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv json imenu thingatpt cc-mode cc-fonts easymenu cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 99799 9585) (symbols 48 20607 0) (miscs 40 38 135) (strings 32 18066 4471) (string-bytes 1 618611) (vectors 16 12570) (vector-slots 8 422502 3583) (floats 8 64 268) (intervals 56 197 0) (buffers 960 12) (heap 1024 40578 947))