bug#2642: Apparent regression on font-lock-compile-keywords

bug#2642: Apparent regression on font-lock-compile-keywords

[Chong Yidong]

> I recently upgraded from Emacs 22 to Emacs 23 (W32 on Windows XP).
> I have been using emacs-wiki and groovy-mode and not both fail with a
> similar error pointing to this:
> font-lock-set-defaults: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (quote
> beginning-of-line)
>
> It works on the second time or after turning font-lock on and off, and
> then fails again next time I try to use it.
>
> If I enable debug-on-error I get:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (quote
> beginning-of-line))
>   font-lock-compile-keywords(nil)

I can't reproduce this with either emacs-wiki or groovy-mode.  From
Googling around, I see that some packages had bugs that led to such an
error.  It's not a bug in Emacs itself, I think.  Could you try
upgrading to more recent versions of these packages and see if the
problem persists?

bug#2642: Apparent regression on font-lock-compile-keywords

[Nascif Abousalh-Neto]

Hi there,

Thanks for the quick response. I think I am using the latest version of these packages (see below).
Can you tell me which versions you are using?

;;; groovy.el --- Major mode for editing Groovy source text
;;; This file was created from javascript.el written and maintained by Karl.
;;; Minor changes were made to include some of the keywords from Groovy
;;; and use groovy/gr- instead of javascript/js-.

;; Copyright (C) 2007 Seth Schroeder

;; Author: Seth Schroeder <seth.schroeder@nearinfinity.com>
;; Author of javascript.el: Karl Landström <kland@comhem.se>
;; Maintainer: Seth Schroeder <seth.schroeder@nearinfinity.com>
;; Version: 1.0
;; Date: 2007-12-26
;; Keywords: languages, oop, groovy


;; Emacs Lisp Archive Entry
;; Filename: emacs-wiki.el
;; Version: 2.69
;; Keywords: hypermedia
;; Author: John Wiegley (johnw AT gnu DOT org)
;;         Alex Schroeder (alex AT gnu DOT org)
;; Maintainer: Michael Olson (mwolson AT gnu DOT org)


Thanks,
  Nascif



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-----Original Message-----
From: Chong Yidong [mailto:cyd@stupidchicken.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:11 PM
To: Nascif Abousalh-Neto
Cc: 2642@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: Apparent regression on font-lock-compile-keywords

> I recently upgraded from Emacs 22 to Emacs 23 (W32 on Windows XP).
> I have been using emacs-wiki and groovy-mode and not both fail with a
> similar error pointing to this:
> font-lock-set-defaults: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (quote
> beginning-of-line)
>
> It works on the second time or after turning font-lock on and off, and
> then fails again next time I try to use it.
>
> If I enable debug-on-error I get:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (quote
> beginning-of-line))
>   font-lock-compile-keywords(nil)

I can't reproduce this with either emacs-wiki or groovy-mode.  From
Googling around, I see that some packages had bugs that led to such an
error.  It's not a bug in Emacs itself, I think.  Could you try
upgrading to more recent versions of these packages and see if the
problem persists?

bug#2642: Apparent regression on font-lock-compile-keywords

[Chong Yidong]

Nascif Abousalh-Neto <Nascif.AbousalhNeto@sas.com> writes:

> Thanks for the quick response. I think I am using the latest version
> of these packages (see below).
>
> ;;; groovy.el --- Major mode for editing Groovy source text
>
> ;; Author: Seth Schroeder <seth.schroeder@nearinfinity.com>
> ;; Version: 1.0
> ;; Date: 2007-12-26

Okay---let's take with this file.  Please provide a precise,
step-by-step recipe for reproducing this bug, starting with

1.  emacs -Q -l groovy-mode.el

bug#2642: Apparent regression on font-lock-compile-keywords

[Glenn Morris]

reassign 2642 notemacs
stop

Chong Yidong wrote:

> Okay---let's take with this file.  Please provide a precise,
> step-by-step recipe for reproducing this bug, starting with
>
> 1.  emacs -Q -l groovy-mode.el

That file seems to be fine, but emacs-wiki 2.69 has a bug in
emacs-wiki-colors.el's setting of font-lock-defaults.

It is fixed in 2.72 (which is over 2 years old):

2006-10-10 04:26:33 GMT Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org> patch-147

    * emacs-wiki-colors.el (emacs-wiki-use-font-lock): Fix bug that
      was noticed with recent builds of Emacs 22. Improper quoting was
      used. Thanks to Chong Yidong and intrigeri for noticing this.

Neither of these files are part of Emacs.

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