From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: selection-coding-system Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6163t52921.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211572256 9268 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2008 19:50:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 19:50:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 21:51:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JzdIM-0006kT-6A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 21:51:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzdHb-00010d-Ke for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzdHW-0000yg-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzdHT-0000wr-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49792 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzdHT-0000wo-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:33475) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JzdHO-0006st-Mj; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535A52CFBF7; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860503FE1; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6E55341BEC; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:50:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <6163t52921.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 22 May 2008 19:49:58 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97610 Archived-At: > 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: > "Vselection-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