Package: emacs;
Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:52:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 17708
Found in version 24.4.50
Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> To: 17701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#17701: 24.4.50; rename-file gets error reading arguments Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:50:53 -0400
I type M-x rename-file RET foo.html RET and get an error "wrong type argument, string". Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) call-interactively(rename-file record nil) command-execute(rename-file record) execute-extended-command(nil "rename-file") funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "rename-file") call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) command-execute(execute-extended-command) In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.3 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2014-06-02 on chiefs-gnewsense Repository revision: 117230 michael.albinus <at> gmx.de-20140602113540-62kmuoznodmv94kd System Description: gNewSense GNU/Linux 3.0 (parkes) Configured using: `configure 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: RMAIL Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t gpm-mouse-mode: t 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 auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Recent messages: Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-10 Sending...done Auto-saving...done Auto-saving...done Sending... Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-11 Sending...done Sending... 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