saving customizations

[A. L. Meyers]

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of Tue Jun 20 2000 on raven
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr 
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib 
--infodir=/usr/share/info --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=yes'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

- From a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com Fri Mar 23 22:02:49 2001
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:16:28 +0100
From: A. L. Meyers <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>
To: Kai Gro=dfjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Problem with saving Customize

On 23 Mar 2001, Kai Gro=dfjohann wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote:
>
> > After changing a parameter I select "State" and "Set for Current
> > Session". This works. Then I select "State" and "Save for Future
> > Sessions". This never works. I always get the error message:
> >
> > "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
> >
> > Nothing is written to ~/.emacs.
>
> Does this happen if your .emacs is empty, too?

Yes. Saved .emacs to .emacs.save.test and opened a new .emacs with
touch. Exactly the same error.

> Does it happen with all variables that you have tried, or just some of them?

All.

>
> I have seen a similar problem, but couldn't investigate it, because it
> only happened on some variables, sometimes, and I was doing nasty
> stuff and was ready to blame the nasty stuff for any breakage.
>
> If it doesn't happen without your .emacs file, which parts of .emacs
> do you need to make the problem reappear?

Happens with or without.

Here is my "normal" .emacs file:

;;own basic config
(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
(setq-default transient-mark-mode t)
(require 'iso-acc)
(setq-default iso-accents-mode t)
(setq-default shell-cd-regexp nil)
(setq-default shell-pushd-regexp nil)
(setq-default shell-popd-regexp nil)
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
          'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
(add-hook 'fundamental-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
(setq initial-frame-alist '((width . 75) (height . 45)))
(setq default-frame-alist '((width . 75) (height . 45)))
(set-face-background 'default "white")
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "/bin/bash")
(setq url-be-anal-about-file-attributes nil)
(setq line-number-mode t)
(setq column-number-mode t)
(setq debug-on-quit t)
(setq smtp-debug-info t)
(setq debug-on-error t)

;;display time
(display-time)
(setq display-time-day-and-date t)
(setq-default display-time-24hr-format t)
(setq display-time-interval 15)
(setq display-time-mail-file "/var/mail/$USER")
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
(diary 0)
(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward)

;;mail general
(setq mail-user-agent 'mh-e-user-agent)
(setq mail-default-reply-to "a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com")
;(setq user-mail-address "A. L. Meyers<a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>")
(setq mail-signature t)
(setq mail-signature-file "~/.signature")
(setq make-backup-files t)
(setq rmail-file-name "~/data/mc/mail/inbox.rmail")
(setq mail-archive-file-name "/home/alm/data/mc/mail/sent-rmail")

;;mh-e
(setq mh-print-backgroup t)
(setq mh-store-default-directory "~/data/mc/mail/store")

;;w3
(setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/xemacs21/packages/etc/w3/" load-path))
(autoload 'w3-preview-this-buffer "w3" "WWW Previewer"t)
(autoload 'w3-follow-url-at-point "w3" "Find document at pt" t)
(autoload 'w3 "w3" "WWW Browser" t)
(autoload 'w3-open-local "w3" "Open local file for WWW browsing" t)
(autoload 'w3-fetch "w3" "Open remote file for WWW browsing" t)
(autoload 'w3-use-hotlist "w3" "Use shortcuts to view WWW docs" t)
(autoload 'gopher-dispatch-object "gopher" "Fetch gopher dir" t)
(setq url-keep-history t)
(setq w3-default-homepage "http://www.debian.org";)
(setq browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-lynx-emacs))
(setq url-mime-language-string "*")
(setq w3-temporary-directory "/usr/tmp")
(setq url-privacy-level (quote paranoid))
(setq w3-user-colors-take-precedence t)
(setq w3-use-menus (quote (file edit view go bookmark options buffers style 
search emacs nil help)))
(setq url-personal-mail-address "A. L. Meyers<a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>")
(setq url-global-history-save-interval 1800)
(setq url-keep-history t)

;;mcpgp
(load-library "mailcrypt")
(mc-setversion "5.0")
(autoload 'mc-install-write-mode "mailcrypt" nil t)
(autoload 'mc-install-read-mode "mailcrypt"nil t)
(add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'mc-install-write-mode)
;rmail
(add-hook 'rmail-show-message-hook 'mc-install-read-mode)
(add-hook 'rmail-summary-mode-hook 'mc-install-read-mode)
(setq mc-pgp50-comment nil)
(setq mc-pgp50-user-id "A. L. Meyers")
(setq mc-pgp-fetch-timeout 120)
;(setq mc-pgp-keyserver-address "www.ch.pgp.net")
;(setq mc-pgp-keyserver-port 11371)
;(setq mc-pgp-keyserver-url-template 
"/cgi-bin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=%s")
(setq mc-passwd-timeout 600)
(setq mc-pgp-always-sign t)

;calendar
(setq european-calendar-style 't)
(setq calendar-latitude 47.8)
(setq calendar-longitude 8.4)
(setq mark-diary-entries-in-calendar t)
(setq mark-holidays-in-calendar t)
(setq all-christian-calendar-holidays t)
(setq all-hebrew-calendar-holidays t)
(setq view-calendar-holidays-initially t)
(setq view-diary-entries-initially t)
(setq all-islamic-calendar-holidays t)
(setq calendar-time-display-form (quote (24-hours ":" minutes (if time-zone " 
(") time-zone (if time-zone ")"))))

;editing
(setq ps-paper-type (quote a4))
(setq require-final-newline t)
(setq next-line-add-newlines t)
(setq font-menu-this-frame-only-p t)
(setq-default tab-width 8)
(setq-default fill-column 72)
(setq truncate-lines nil)
(setq mouse-yank-at-point t)
(setq left-margin 0)

;menus
(setq buffers-menu-submenus-for-groups-p t)
(setq buffers-menu-max-size nil)
(setq font-menu-ignore-scaled-fonts nil)
(setq buffers-menu-sort-function nil)
(setq complex-buffers-menu-p t)
(setq buffers-menu-grouping-function nil)

;;Europe
(standard-display-european 1)
;(set-language-environment 'Latin-1) xemacs
(set-input-mode
        (car (current-input-mode))
        (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) 0)
(global-set-key [delete]        'delete-char)
(global-set-key [home]          'beginning-of-line)
(global-set-key [end]           'end-of-line)

(setq gnuserv-program (concat exec-directory "/gnuserv"))

;bbdb section
(require 'bbdb)
(add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus)
(add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-sendmail)
(add-hook 'rmail-mode-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-rmail)
(require 'message)
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'rmail 'sc 'w3)
(bbdb-insinuate-w3)
;(bbdb-insinuate-mh) xemacs
(defun my-bbdb-tab-complete ()
        (interactive)
        (if (mail-abbrev-in-expansion-header-p)
            (bbdb-complete-name)
        (message-tab)))
(define-key message-mode-map [tab] 'my-bbdb-tab-complete)


Hope this isn't too bad for a newbie.

This file completes without errors.

Regards,

Lucien
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