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"Roland Reichenberg" <r.reichenberg@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi NG,
>
> when trying to open an _existing_ file using C-x C-f, my emacs returns:
>
> "wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
>
> The second attempt of "C-x C-f /path/to/file" always works fine and opens
> the file.
>
> What's going wrong?
>
> I am using emacs 21.2.1 on i686 platform (linux).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>         Roland
>
>
>
Can you do M-x toggle-debug-on-error, then try to open a file like
above, (to provoque the error) then send the content of the
*backtrace* buffer here?

Thanks.


-- 
Jean-Philippe Théberge
"DARK SHADOWS" is on!!  Hey, I think the VAMPIRE forgot his UMBRELLA!!