How to reproduce this problem: (1) Launch emacs -Q (2) Open the sh-script.el from the source code (3) Go to the `sh-set-shell` function body and try to edebug it (C-u C-M-x) Doing so will give this error: Edebug: edebug-anon2200 Edebug: edebug-anon2201 Edebug: edebug-anon2202 Edebug: sh-set-shell gv-get: (local (quote smie--hanging-eolp-function)) is not a valid place expression In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4) of 2015-04-20 on ... Repository revision: 8f1eda7a8a7e268413e38fa9d704a92cf7a860d5 Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60900000 System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.10 (Tikanga) Configured using: `configure --prefix=/home/kmodi/usr_local/apps/emacs/master CPPFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-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 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. completing-read-default: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer uncompressing sh-script.el.gz...done Mark saved where search started Edebug: edebug-anon2200 Edebug: edebug-anon2201 Edebug: edebug-anon2202 Edebug: sh-set-shell gv-get: (local (quote smie--hanging-eolp-function)) is not a valid place expression Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired 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 help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils cl-macs gv edebug cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib misearch multi-isearch vc-git diff-mode easymenu easy-mmode jka-compr mule-util time-date tooltip eldoc 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 elisp-mode 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 cl-preloaded 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 90862 8652) (symbols 48 19664 1) (miscs 40 396 185) (strings 32 15831 4753) (string-bytes 1 457684) (vectors 16 11838) (vector-slots 8 413640 5414) (floats 8 95 184) (intervals 56 1079 172) (buffers 976 12) (heap 1024 172626 599))