From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Koenig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: pc-selection-mode - error when set in .emacs Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 22:09:54 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200204071850.g37IohF19898@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018220244 1056 127.0.0.1 (7 Apr 2002 22:57:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:57:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16uLb9-0000Gv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 00:57:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uKTN-0007vs-00; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 17:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ashd1-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.245]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uIzD-0008OT-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 16:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by mr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQmjpg01811 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:10:02 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:10:02 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:10:02 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: b075193.adsl.hansenet.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 38 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: b075193.adsl.hansenet.de (62.109.75.193) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1018210202 30911166 62.109.75.193 (16 [105377]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:479 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:479 Richard Stallman wrote: > Hi, I have some difficulties turning on > > (pc-selection-mode t) > > when trying to set this after emacs is started, it works without any > problem. But I get an error message when trying to put it in ~/.emacs. > This is 21.2.1 on Linux. > > (That would be on GNU/Linux, I'd expect. A kernel such as Linux > is not enough by itself to run a program like Emacs. See > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.) So, what would you suggest? Oh, I see. But ... then ... you wouldn't be able to run Emacs at all. :o) *run* :-) But, yes: let credit go where credit is due: GNU/Linux * bow * we owe * We really do. > Some changes have been made in pc-selection-mode recently. > They are not in 21.2 since we didn't think they were fixes to > serious bugs, but perhaps they do fix this one. I will email > you the latest version so you can try it. > > It does not fail for me in the current development Emacs, > but perhaps it depends on something else in your .emacs file. > > So I called "emacs --debug-init". These are the last lines of the debug > message: > > If it still fails, could you send the first few lines instead? Great. That new version did it. The error also went away when removing the parameter, like suggested by Andreas Schwab. But the new version accepts both. Thanks Joe