Subject: bug#11944: 24.1.50; newcomment needs comment-normalize-vars in more functions

From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:10:57 +0100

When adding a word to a per-buffer dictionary in an AuCTeX buffer, I get
an error caused by the fact that AuCTeX sets comment-padding to 1, then
calls comment-padright, which assumes comment-padding is a string.

A similar bug report is here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-auctex/2011-12/msg00000.html

Making comment-padright call comment-normalize-vars fixes this problem;
presumably at least comment-padleft and perhaps other functions need the
same treatment.

(As far as I can see, setting comment-padding to an integer is still
allowed, as per its docstring.)

In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-07-15 on slice
Bzr revision: 109096 [email-masked]
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8
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  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: LaTeX/P

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C-x 1 M-x e m a c s - r e p o r t - b u <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> r e p o r t - b u <backspace> <backspace> 
e a c s <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> m a c s 
- b u g <return>

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Loading paren...done
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Starting new Ispell process [/usr/bin/aspell::british+accs] ...
Applying style hooks... done
Wrote /home/rrt/.emacs.desktop.lock
Desktop: 1 buffer restored.
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
delete-backward-char: Text is read-only [7 times]

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/usr/local/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite

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