From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17701: 24.4.50; rename-file gets error reading arguments Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:50:53 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401969143 19669 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2014 11:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:52:23 +0000 (UTC) To: 17701@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 13:52:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWDR-0004qV-I6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:52:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWDQ-0004MQ-Po for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWDJ-0004Gx-RI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWDD-0001aU-15 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWDC-0001aM-U1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWDC-0001Nw-9v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:52:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 17701 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.14019690735211 (code B ref -1); Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jun 2014 11:51:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44827 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWCO-0001Ly-9C for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49788) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWCL-0001Le-Hm for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWC9-0001DC-FH for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:56717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWC8-0001Cy-VK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:50:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWC7-0002jH-8B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:50:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWC5-0001C9-R0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWC5-0001C1-KW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:50:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsWC5-0005JH-4n; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:50:53 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:90043 Archived-At: I type M-x rename-file RET foo.html RET and get an error "wrong type argument, string". Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) call-interactively(rename-file record nil) command-execute(rename-file record) execute-extended-command(nil "rename-file") funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "rename-file") call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) command-execute(execute-extended-command) In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.3 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2014-06-02 on chiefs-gnewsense Repository revision: 117230 michael.albinus@gmx.de-20140602113540-62kmuoznodmv94kd System Description: gNewSense GNU/Linux 3.0 (parkes) Configured using: `configure 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: RMAIL Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t gpm-mouse-mode: t tooltip-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 abbrev-mode: t Recent messages: Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-10 Sending...done Auto-saving...done Auto-saving...done Sending... 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