Re: problems with eudc-expand-inline in EUDC

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:34:04 -0400 Desmond Rivet <desmond_news@videotron.ca> 
wrote: 

DR> I'm attempting to connect to an LDAP server containing some email
DR> contacts.  The relavent portion of my .gnus.el looks like this:
...
DR> I type "m" to bring up a mail buffer.  Then I type, for example, "david"
DR> in the the To: field and I type "TAB" (associated with
DR> eudc-expand-inline).  What I *expect* to see is some kind of indication
DR> that "david" doesn't exist in LDAP, or that he does and here he is, or
DR> that emacs had trouble connecting to the server, etc.  Something along
DR> these lines.  What I see instead is this (once I turn on debug):

DR> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil)
DR>   byte-code("...")
DR>   eudc-expand-inline()
DR>   call-interactively(eudc-expand-inline nil nil)

DR> I'm a bit mystified by this.  I presume that eudc-expand-inline is
DR> epxpecting a string as one of its arguments, and is instead getting nil.
DR> The help for the function doesn't mention a string arugment.  It only
DR> mentions the replace-p argument.

DR> If I had to take a stab at guessing, I would say that eudc-expand-inline
DR> takes the query string (extracted from the buffer before the point) as
DR> a parameter, and this string is not being extracted properly.

I think this is an Emacs issue, not Gnus-specific.  Could you try to
replicate it with a recent Emacs checkout and submit it as an Emacs bug
if necessary?

Thanks
Ted