GNU bug report logs - #17912
inferior-octave-mode: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, "100000000000"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Damian Nadales <damian.nadales <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 15:36:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Damian Nadales <damian.nadales <at> gmail.com>
To: Kurt.Hornik <at> wu-wien.ac.at, 17912 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17912: inferior-octave-mode: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, "100000000000"
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 11:53:33 +0200

Hello,

Whenever I start octave-mode from emacs I got the following error message:
   inferior-octave-mode: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, "100000000000"

Running it for a second time makes the error disappear.

Furthermore, the following error appears randomly (to me at least)
when using the Octave buffer:
   comint-send-input: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, "100000000000"

The constant 100000000000 is the same I use to set the history size of
octave in my pam_environment:
   OCTAVE_HISTSIZE DEFAULT=100000000000

But I don't know how is this related to the error I got.

What could be happening?
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