From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10839: 24.0.93; wrong-type-argument listp for `ediff-strip-mode-line-format' Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:55:38 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329522974 25768 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2012 23:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:56:14 +0000 (UTC) To: 10839@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 18 00:56:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RyXet-0002e7-H9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:56:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyXes-00038e-To for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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I got a `wrong-type-argument listp' error, because `ediff-strip-mode-line-format' is not very smart: (defsubst ediff-strip-mode-line-format () (if (member (car mode-line-format) '(" A: " " B: " " C: " " Ancestor: ")) (setq mode-line-format (nth 2 mode-line-format)))) It has no business assuming that `mode-line-format' is a list. >From the doc string of `mode-line-format': Value may be nil, a string, a symbol or a list or cons cell. For a recipe from emacs -Q: C-h i M-: (setq mode-line-format "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU") M-x ediff-buffers RET *info* RET *scratch* RET In GNU Emacs 24.0.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-02-15 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'