Re: 23.0.60; Error with :name and malfunctioning

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.12.2007 um 03:36 schrieb Kenichi Handa:

> I can't reproduce it.

Me too, when in Terminal with -nw. Then the text is handled well. The  
problem is in X11.


I recompiled a few elder Unicode Emacs version, those that are  
patched to be Emacs.app RC 1, 2, 2a, or 3. Those that can be compiled  
do not show the effect. When I activate the (message "...") line for  
recent GNU Emacs 23.0.60 too and launch it with --debug-init, I get:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp :name)
  message(".\x00a1\x1e40\x00fc\x00dft\x00e8 V\x00e9\x0159\x015f\x00ee 
\x00d6\x00f1 \x2014 \x00c4\x00e4\x0127 \x2265 21 s\x00ea\x00ee\x0146,  
\x1e1f\x00fb\x0155 \x00f8,\x00d8\ 2\x20ac\x00bf")
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil "/Users/pete/.emacs_x" nil  
t)  ; Reading at buffer position 151
  load-with-code-conversion("/Users/pete/.emacs_x" "/Users/ 
pete/.emacs_x" nil nil)
  ad-Orig-load("~/.emacs_x" nil nil nil nil)
  (setq ad-return-value (ad-Orig-load file noerror nomessage  
nosuffix must-suffix))
  (let (ad-return-value) (message "(Tipp von Kai G) Lade jetzt: %s"  
file) (setq ad-return-value (ad-Orig-load file noerror nomessage  
nosuffix must-suffix)) ad-return-value)
  load("~/.emacs_x")

In ~/.emacs a decision is made on the type of window-system and then  
a particular "external" file is loaded:

        (defconst mWS (symbol-value 'window-system)
          "Running as some windowing system's client,
           or as slave of a terminal emulator?")
        ;;...
              (load custom-file)
              (load (format "~/.emacs_%s" mWS))

All three files, ~/.emacs, custom-file, and ~/.emacs_x, are UTF-8.


When working in this handicapped GNU Emacs 23.0.60 it does clear/ 
redraw the whole frame, only 45 % or such. So after I had opened and  
quit custom-file I see a mixture of *Messages* (26 lines) and custom- 
file (28 lines) and the mode-line contains the name of custom-file.  
And the scroll-bar is not visible, on its region between (from custom- 
file with long wrapped lines decorated) fringe and frame border,  
which has background-color (I checked it with a screen-shot tool).  
And the message about ``Wrong type argument: listp, :name´´ is active  
in echo-area.

When I split the frame into two halves and one window visits the  
*Backtrace* buffer, then its scroll-bar is OK, that of the *Messages*  
buffer not. With cursor in *Backtrace* buffer the echo-area is  
cleared, C-x o appears, and maybe later I could provoke that meesage  
again.

--
Greetings

  Pete

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what  
you're talking about.
                                – John von Neumann