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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: selection-coding-system
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfxs83iod.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6163t52921.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 22 May 2008 19:49:58 -0400")

> If I do `C-h C RET' I get that error, and doing describe-variable on
> `selection-coding-system' gives:

>    selection-coding-system is a variable defined in `C source code'.
>    It is void as a variable.

> Clicking on the `C source code' link results in an error: Search failed:
> "\x1fVselection-coding-system "

> I see that selection-coding-system _is_ defined, using defcustom, in
> lisp/select.el, and was removed from C code on 2008-02-01, but something
> apparently still thinks it's defined in C code...

> Emacs is from CVS trunk, checked out about an hour ago, compiled with
> "make bootstrap".

I cannot reproduce this, do you still see it?  Can someone else
reproduce it?  Are you using a non-X11 build or somesuch?


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-22 23:49 Symbol's value as variable is void: selection-coding-system Miles Bader
2008-05-22 23:54 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-23 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-05-27  3:10   ` Miles Bader
2008-05-27 14:49     ` Stefan Monnier

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