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

[Stefan Monnier]

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

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp 
> cperl-mode-abbrev-table)

I believe the problem was in the .abbrev_defs file because of a bug in
abbrev--write.  More specifically, the patch below should fix it.


        Stefan


Index: abbrev.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/abbrev.el,v
retrieving revision 1.60
diff -u -u -b -r1.60 abbrev.el
--- abbrev.el   4 Nov 2007 22:58:50 -0000       1.60
+++ abbrev.el   5 Nov 2007 04:28:02 -0000
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@
 Presumes that `standard-output' points to `current-buffer'."
   (unless (or (null (symbol-value sym)) (abbrev-get sym :system))
     (insert "    (")
-    (prin1 name)
+    (prin1 sym)
     (insert " ")
     (prin1 (symbol-value sym))
     (insert " ")