Re: 23.0.50; wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table upon reading abbrevs

[Stefan Monnier]

> I simply started Emacs with "emacs -nw".

Can you send us your ~/.abbrev_defs (be careful to sanitize it first, if
necessary, of course)?


        Stefan


> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp 
> cperl-mode-abbrev-table)
>   intern(cperl-mode-abbrev-table [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...])
>   define-abbrev([ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head1" 
> cperl-electric-pod 0)
>   apply(define-abbrev [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] (cperl-mode-abbrev-table 
> "=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0))
>   define-abbrev-table(cperl-mode-abbrev-table ((cperl-mode-abbrev-table 
> "=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head2" 
> cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=over" cperl-electric-pod 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=pod" cperl-electric-pod 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "continue" cperl-electric-else 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "do" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "else" cperl-electric-else 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "elsif" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "for" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "foreach" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "foreachmy" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "formy" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "head1" cperl-electric-pod 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "head2" cperl-electric-pod 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "if" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "over" cperl-electric-pod 0) 
> (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "pod" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table 
> "unless" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "until" 
> cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "while" 
> cperl-electric-keyword 0)))
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" nil t)  ; 
> Reading at buffer position 2442
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" 
> "/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" nil t)
>   load("~/.abbrev_defs" nil t)
>   read-abbrev-file("~/.abbrev_defs" t)
>   quietly-read-abbrev-file("~/.abbrev_defs")
>   command-line()
>   normal-top-level()


> 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/local/src/emacs-cvs-trunk/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


> In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
>  of 2007-11-04 on debian
> configured using `configure  '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--with-xpm=no' 
> '--with-jpeg=no' '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no' '--with-xft' '--with-gtk' 
> '--enable-font-backend''

> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

> Major mode: Debugger

> Minor modes in effect:
>   erc-autojoin-mode: t
>   erc-match-mode: t
>   erc-log-mode: t
>   erc-services-mode: t
>   recentf-mode: t
>   display-time-mode: t
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   iswitchb-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t

> Recent input:
> C-x h ESC w ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB b TAB RET

> Recent messages:
> Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
> I guess we don't have tabbar available.
> Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/erc-stuff.el (source)...done
> Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/mwolsons-erc-timestamp-stuff.el (source)...done
> Loading /home/erich/.environment.el (source)...done
> I guess we don't have amz-common available.
> Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/elpa/package.el (source)...done
> I guess we don't have xml-rpc available.
> Entering debugger...
> Mark set [2 times]

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