23.0.50; wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil while trying to edit abbrevs

[Eric Hanchrow]

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

  M-x read-abb TAB RET ~/.abb TAB RET
  M-x edit-abb TAB RET

Then I searched forward for one particular abbrev, deleted it with
M-d, typed another word, and hit C-c C-c.

I saw

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
  define-abbrev([0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 rho 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 ...] "rho" "right-hand opponent" nil 1 
nil)
  apply(define-abbrev [0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 rho 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 ...] ("rho" "right-hand opponent" 
nil 1 nil))
  define-abbrev-table(outline-mode-abbrev-table (("rho" "right-hand opponent" 
nil 1 nil) ("pseudocode" "pseudo code" nil 0 nil) ("consitute" "constitute" nil 
0 nil)))
  define-abbrevs(t)
  edit-abbrevs-redefine()
  call-interactively(edit-abbrevs-redefine)


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please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
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In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2007-11-16 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: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
  menu-bar-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

Recent input:
ESC x o p e n - d r TAB RET d r i b b l e RET ESC x 
r e a d - a b b TAB RET ~ / . a b b TAB RET ESC x e 
d i t - a b b TAB RET C-s " b o C-e ESC b ESC d b u 
m m e r C-c C-c ESC x t o g g l e - d e TAB e TAB RET 
C-c C-c ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB RET

Recent messages:
("/usr/local/src/emacs-cvs-trunk/src/emacs" "-Q")
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Loading /home/erich/.abbrev_defs...done
Mark saved where search started
apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Debug on Error enabled globally
Entering debugger...