start with emacs -Q; in *scratch* buffer, go to top and C-s for something While in isearch mode, press M-% Insead of asking for replace string, the message buffer says "Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil" In GNU Emacs 25.0.92.8 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8) of 2016-03-21 built on zhyang.mtv.corp.google.com Repository revision: 76ef52267cf887e3e1aa6d25b3b16dd0601dd459 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000 System Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: 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 transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Quit [3 times] isearch--describe-regexp-mode: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr misearch multi-isearch emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel 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 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 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 90349 12324) (symbols 48 20035 0) (miscs 40 526 196) (strings 32 15185 4779) (string-bytes 1 452841) (vectors 16 12993) (vector-slots 8 450841 5135) (floats 8 165 85) (intervals 56 192 4) (buffers 976 11) (heap 1024 44170 991))