bug#4917: marked as done (Error: Attempt to modify read-only object)

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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Error: Attempt to modify read-only object
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:01:37 +0200
Message-ID: <87pr7nqolw.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

Starting Emacs fails with the error:

  Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/juri/.emacs':

  error: Attempt to modify read-only object

  To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
  cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
  the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

Starting Emacs with the `--debug-init' option displays:

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Attempt to modify read-only object")
    delete(("\\`\357\273\277" . utf-8-with-signature) (("\\`BABYL OPTIONS:[ 	]*-\\*-[ 	]*rmail[ 	]*-\\*-" . no-conversion) ("\\`\376\377" . utf-16be-with-signature) ("\\`\377\376" . utf-16le-with-signature) ("\\`\357\273\277" . utf-8-with-signature) ("\\`;ELC" . emacs-mule)))
    (setq auto-coding-regexp-alist (delete (rassoc ... auto-coding-regexp-alist) auto-coding-regexp-alist))

The reason of this error in .emacs is the lines that remove a match
for `utf-8-with-signature' from `auto-coding-regexp-alist' that allows
to always display the BOM (Byte-order mark signature) to be able
to remove it without the need to visit files literally:

  (setq auto-coding-regexp-alist
	(delete (rassoc 'utf-8-with-signature auto-coding-regexp-alist)
		auto-coding-regexp-alist))

Before yesterday there were no problems with this.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/



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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: 4917-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Subject: Re: bug#4917: Error: Attempt to modify read-only object
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:41:53 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <200911130241.nAD2frbG007723@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

  > Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
  > 
  >   > Starting Emacs fails with the error:
  >   > 
  >   >   Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/juri/.emacs':
  >   > 
  >   >   error: Attempt to modify read-only object
  >   > 
  >   >   To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
  >   >   cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
  >   >   the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
  >   > 
  >   > Starting Emacs with the `--debug-init' option displays:
  >   > 
  >   >   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Attempt to modify read-only object")
  >   >     delete(("\\`\357\273\277" . utf-8-with-signature) (("\\`BABYL OPTIONS:[ 	]*-\\*-[ 	]*rmail[ 	]*-\\*-" . no-conversion) ("\\`\376\377" . utf-16be-with-signature) ("\\`\377\376" . utf-16le-with-signature) ("\\`\357\273\277" . utf-8-with-signature) ("\\`;ELC" . emacs-mule)))
  >   >     (setq auto-coding-regexp-alist (delete (rassoc ... auto-coding-regexp-alist) auto-coding-regexp-alist))
  >   > 
  >   > The reason of this error in .emacs is the lines that remove a match
  >   > for `utf-8-with-signature' from `auto-coding-regexp-alist' that allows
  >   > to always display the BOM (Byte-order mark signature) to be able
  >   > to remove it without the need to visit files literally:
  >   > 
  >   >   (setq auto-coding-regexp-alist
  >   > 	(delete (rassoc 'utf-8-with-signature auto-coding-regexp-alist)
  >   > 		auto-coding-regexp-alist))
  >   > 
  >   > Before yesterday there were no problems with this.
  > 
  > This is mine, too aggressive use of purecopy.
  > auto-coding-regexp-alist needs to be changed like this:
  > 
  > (defcustom auto-coding-regexp-alist
  >   (mapcar (lambda (arg) (cons (purecopy (car arg)) (cdr arg)))
  >   '(("\\`BABYL OPTIONS:[ \t]*-\\*-[ \t]*rmail[ \t]*-\\*-"  . no-conversion)
  > [....]
  > 
  > I'll check it in when I get a chance.  If it's in your way, please feel
  > free to do it earlier.

Fixed.  Thanks for catching this.