emacs -Q -nw SYMLINK where SYMLINK is any symlink to a VC-controlled file. Emacs will display a curses-like dialog asking whether the symlink should be followed. After selecting Yes, a signal is raised and the file is not visited. Stack trace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil) file-truename(nil) find-buffer-visiting(nil) vc-follow-link() vc-refresh-state() run-hooks(find-file-hook) after-find-file(nil t) find-file-noselect-1(# "~/emacs/README.link" nil nil "~/emacs/README" (3277016 64513)) find-file-noselect("/home/phst/emacs/README.link") #[1285 ".\204..\300.!\204..\301\302.\"\207\303\304.!.\"\305.!.... \242B\240\210\211q\210.\242\306U\2043.eb\210.\242Sy\210.\306\240\210.\242\307W\204D.\310.\242S!\210.\306\240\207" [file-name-absolute-p message "Ignoring relative file name (%s) due to nil default-directory" expand-file-name command-line-normalize-file-name find-file-noselect 0 1 move-to-column] 10 "\n\n(fn DISPLAYABLE-BUFFERS DIR LINE COLUMN NAME)"]((nil) "~/emacs/" (0) (0) "README.link") command-line-1(("-f" "toggle-debug-on-error" "README.link")) command-line() normal-top-level() In GNU Emacs 25.1.50 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8) System Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Configured using: 'configure --disable-build-details CFLAGS=-g' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND GSETTINGS NOTIFY FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Debugger 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 auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Debug on Error enabled globally Entering debugger... Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils debug vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode map seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-extra help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib cus-load term/xterm xterm time-date mule-util tooltip cus-start eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-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 term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray 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 inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 168760 10124) (symbols 48 21948 0) (miscs 40 48 94) (strings 32 54530 7129) (string-bytes 1 2271107) (vectors 16 20478) (vector-slots 8 465697 3482) (floats 8 331 146) (intervals 56 226 0) (buffers 976 13) (heap 1024 31200 857)) -- Google Germany GmbH Erika-Mann-Straße 33 80636 München Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle Diese E-Mail ist vertraulich. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind, leiten Sie diese bitte nicht weiter, informieren Sie den Absender und löschen Sie die E-Mail und alle Anhänge. Vielen Dank. This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the right addressee please do not forward it, please inform the sender, and please erase this e-mail including any attachments. Thanks.