GNU bug report logs - #19903
24.4; Emacs fails to save enriched buffer with error message `wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold"'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jorge <jorge13515 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 19903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
Subject: Re: bug#19903: 24.4;
 wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold" during enriched-encode
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:18:38 -0500

>> If string faces are rendered just the same as symbol ones,

I think that's a misfeature.

>> I’d rather wonder if either facemenu-add-face should silently
>> ‘intern’ all the strings it gets before use, /or/ face-attribute
>> should do that.  (Or perhaps both.)

I think interning would be good, indeed, tho I would prefer if it
emitted some kind of warning instead of doing it silently, to try and
stop this bad habit.


        Stefan
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