[debbugs-tracker] bug#12992: closed (24.2.90.1; `C-x 8 RET RET': `Wrong type argument: characterp, nil')

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regarding 24.2.90.1; `C-x 8 RET RET': `Wrong type argument: characterp, nil'
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> 24.2.90.1; `C-x 8 RET RET': `Wrong type argument: characterp, nil'
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> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:55:04 +0100
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> `C-x 8 RET RET' gives `Wrong type argument: characterp, nil' in Emacs
> version 24.2.90.1, whereas in version 24.2.1 it produces the message
> `Not a Unicode character'.
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> In GNU Emacs 24.2.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>  of 2012-11-25 on x201
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11204000
> System Description:     Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
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> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
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> Recent input:
> C-x 8 <return> <return> M-x r e p o r t <return>
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> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> call-interactively: Wrong type argument: characterp, nil
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.90 (gnu/linux)
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> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> How about simply changing the message to "You didn't specify a
> >> character", similar to C-h f RET?
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> > Or "No character specified".  Yes, that's much better, IMO.
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> Fixed in trunk.
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