From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Gibbons Subject: bug#38274: emacs doesn't open files Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:07:32 -0700 Message-ID: <1f689090e172463c62ea6c1029935fd5b29fdbdc.camel@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47001) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iX6z2-0004nh-BG for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:08:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iX6yy-0003uM-FF for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:08:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39627) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iX6yx-0003tn-Mi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:08:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iX6yx-0003IO-Ag for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:08:03 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 38274-close@debbugs.gnu.org, 38273-close@debbugs.gnu.org On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 08:35 -0700, Jesse Gibbons wrote: > guix describe : > Generation 139 Nov 19 2019 08:11:32 (current) > guix 7b40d59 > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > branch: master > commit: 7b40d59114e1462d6d8140f325a66b12e91db667 > > emacs --version : > GNU Emacs 26.3 > Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs > under the terms of the GNU General Public License. > For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. > > When I launch emacs from the command line, I get the following message: > split-string: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil > > As a result, when I try `EDITOR=emacs guix edit hello` it doesn't work. > I can confirm this is not a problem with guix edit, because when > EDITOR=vim > it opens the package in vim. > > (Joke about guix turning to the dark side goes here.) > > Since I do not know if it is a problem with guix or emacs, I'm starting > with > guix. It could be related to bug#38261 > > > > I guess this was fixed for me by restarting my computer. (joke about "turning it off and back on" working goes here)