bug#12586: 24.2.50; "q" in empty vc-diff buffer causes error

[Eric Hanchrow]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':


* Prepare a version-controlled file

These instructions use git, but I've found that the analagous steps
using RCS also reproduce the problem.

At your shell:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
$ cd /tmp
$ rm -rf x
$ mkdir x
$ cd x
$ git init
$ echo Hey baby > frotz
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "A commit"
#+END_EXAMPLE

Now we have a git repo that contains a single file.

Now visit the file with emacs

- C-x C-f /tmp/frotz RET

Change the file:

- w a s s u p RET C-x C-s

Create a *vc-diff* buffer that shows the changes:

- C-x v =

Restore the file to its checked-in state

- C-x v u y e s RET

Refresh the *vc-diff* buffer

- g

At this point, everything is as it should be: we're looking at the
file in the upper window, and a (now-empty) *vc-diff* buffer in the
lower window.

Now try to quit the *vc-diff* buffer:

- q

I hear the bell ring, and see a message in the echo area:

        Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *vc-diff*>

I was expecting the *vc-diff* window to close, and the *vc-diff*
buffer to get buried, which is what _normally_ happens when I type
"q".


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'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.1.0, NS apple-appkit-1187.00)
 of 2012-09-20 on Eric-Hanchrows-MacBook-Air.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1187
Configured using:
 `configure '--with-ns' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -arch x86_64'
 'LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include''

Important settings:
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f / t m p / f r t o z <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <tab> / / t m p / f r <tab> <M-backspace>
x <tab> f <tab> <return> C-M-o W a s s u p C-x C-s
C-x v = q C-x v u y e s <return> C-x v = C-M-o C-w
W a s s u p C-x C-s C-x v = C-x o C-x v u y e s <return>
C-x o g q C-x 0 C-x C-f <backspace> <backspace> <return>
C-u C-n C-u C-n C-n C-n a y C-x C-f w h e e C-j W a
s s u p <return> C-x C-s C-x v v r c <tab> <backspace>
<backspace> R <tab> <return> <return> C-x v = H e y
C-x C-q H e y SPC b a b y <return> C-x C-s C-x y e
<backspace> y e s <return> C-x v = C-x o C-x v u y
e s <return> y e s <return> C-x o g q C-x 0 C-x k <return>
C-x k <return> M-> Y o SPC m o m m a <return> C-x C-s
C-x v = C-x o C-x o C-x v u y e s <return> g q C-x
1 C-x b m e s s <M-backspace> * m e <tab> <backspace>
<backspace> M e <tab> <return> C-p M-f M-f M-f M-b
C-SPC C-e M-w <f5> C-x k <return> C-x k <return> H
e y SPC c u z <return> C-x C-s C-x v = q M-x r e p
o r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Saving file /tmp/x/frotz...
Wrote /tmp/x/frotz
Finding changes in /tmp/x/frotz...done

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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vc-rcs help-mode novice dired diff-mode easymenu easy-mmode vc
vc-dispatcher vc-git time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
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