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23.0.90; Emacs chokes on empty command line argument |
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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:50:34 +0100 |
Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.
Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
When running emacs with an empty command line argument like this:
emacs ''
it won't start and display the following message:
Option `' is ambiguous
This makes it impossible to just call emacs "$*" inside a shell script
(without checking if "$*" is an empty string).
If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
`bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.0.90/etc/DEBUG for instructions.
In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.7)
of 2009-02-17 on sascha-xps
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr'
'--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc'
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--program-suffix=-emacs-23'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-23' '--with-sound' '--with-x'
'--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png'
'--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xpm' '--with-freetype'
'--with-xft' '--without-libotf' '--without-m17n-flt'
'--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--without-hesiod' '--without-kerberos'
'--without-kerberos5' '--with-gpm' '--with-dbus'
'--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu'
'host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=prescott -pipe'
'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.utf8
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
eldoc-mode: t
auto-complete-mode: t
iswitchb-mode: t
which-function-mode: t
minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode: t
recentf-mode: t
icicle-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
auto-dictionary-mode: t
flyspell-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: -1
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
column-number-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<f1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <se
nd-emacs-bug-report>
Recent messages:
Loading /home/sascha/.emacs.d/site-lisp/auto-complete/auto-complete.el
(source)...done
Loading /home/sascha/.emacs.d/site-lisp/auto-complete/ac-dabbrev.el
(source)...done
Loading /home/sascha/.emacs.d/site-lisp/my-stuff/init.el (source)...done
Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Menu-Bar mode enabled
Buffer dictionary was nil
Ispell process killed
Local Ispell dictionary set to en
Buffer dictionary is now en
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Re: bug#2407: 23.0.90; Emacs chokes on empty command line argument |
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Date: |
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:28:14 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
>> This makes it impossible to just call emacs "$*" inside a shell script
>> (without checking if "$*" is an empty string).
> You should use "$@" anyway.
Exactly.
Stefan
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