EUDC hotlist broken... ?

[Paul Smith]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-12-04 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr 
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib 
--infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes 
--with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: 
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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

If you try to run M-x eudc-edit-hotlist RET, you get an error:

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument wholenump -3)
    make-string(-3 32)
    eudc-edit-hotlist()
  * call-interactively(eudc-edit-hotlist)
    execute-extended-command(nil)
    call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

This hotlist seems like a nice idea, but I can't get it to work: I can't
create the first server in it, as above, and there is very little in the
documentation about how it's supposed to work.  This function, which
appears to be the entry point, isn't even described in the manual.


Also, there appears to be code in lisp/net/eudc.el to create a very nice
menu which lists all the servers with checkboxes next to them for
selecting the one you want, but none if it works on my system; I just
get a basic menu.


Recent input:
<switch-frame> u p n u <return> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> C-x k <return> C-x C-f e C-g C-x b e 
u <tab> C-g C-x b l d <tab> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
C-x C-f C-y <return> C-s e d i t - h o t l i s t C-s 
C-a C-x C-f e u <tab> <tab> - h o t <tab> <return> 
C-s e d i t - h o t C-n C-a C-n C-n C-l C-s m a k e 
- s t r t C-a C-e M-b M-b M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
Scanning buffer for index (  0%)
Scanning buffer for index ( 22%)
Scanning buffer for index ( 31%)
Scanning buffer for index ( 41%)
Scanning buffer for index ( 48%)
Scanning buffer for index ( 56%)
Scanning buffer for index ( 69%)
Scanning buffer for index ( 81%)
Scanning buffer for index (100%)
Mark saved where search started [2 times]


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