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: File lisp/abbrevlist.el Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300912901 31447 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 20:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 21:41:35 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2Urt-0004rR-4W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:41:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2Up8-00008i-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47179 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2Up3-00008c-O1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2Up2-0002Pd-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:33637 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2Up2-0002PY-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAEP3iU1MCqfZ/2dsb2JhbAClRHiITbs2hWkElXg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,233,1299474000"; d="scan'208";a="97754901" Original-Received: from 76-10-167-217.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.167.217]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 23 Mar 2011 16:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 18C07591E8; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:58:56 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 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:137610 Archived-At: >> Obsoleting it sounds good, yes. In what way is it broken? > I didn't investigate further but this backtrace: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil) > list-one-abbrev-table([ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] > "abc") > eval((list-one-abbrev-table text-mode-abbrev-table "abc")) > eval-expression((list-one-abbrev-table text-mode-abbrev-table "abc") nil) > call-interactively(eval-expression nil nil) Ah, yes, so it's broken since Emacs-23.1 (since the introduction of the new Elisp implementation of abbrevs). This probably means we can remove it altogether. Stefan