Subject: bug#15248: 24.3.50; (wrong-type-argument char-table-p nil) when opening C file

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:07:37 +0300

> From: Magnus Henoch <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:13:49 +0100
> 
> M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET
> C-x C-f /tmp/foo.c RET
> 
> That causes this error for me:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-table-p nil)
>   char-table-parent(nil)

Can't reproduce this on my box.  Is foo.c an existing file, and if so,
what's in it?

Does this happen in "emacs -Q"?

Also note that you have gobs of shadowing.