GNU bug report logs - #20098
25.0.50; eval-expression does not return result of evaluation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: raman <raman <at> google.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: raman <tv.raman.tv <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 20098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: raman <raman <at> google.com>
Cc: 20098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20098: 25.0.50;
 eval-expression does not return result of evaluation
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 02:32:12 -0400

raman wrote:

> M-: (eval-expression)
> In the minibuffer 
> (setq f 1)
> Prints 1
> But f is set to "eval-expression" not 1 as it used to be.

That would be a very strange error.
I cannot reproduce this problem in current master.
Note that your build is 3 months old.
It also seems to correspond to no known revision AFAICS:

  git show f9b1a2a7e0bf5ffd71f43f257f1b13e8bfeab875
  fatal: bad object f9b1a2a7e0bf5ffd71f43f257f1b13e8bfeab875

> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2014-12-25 on labrador
> Repository revision: f9b1a2a7e0bf5ffd71f43f257f1b13e8bfeab875
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 131 days ago.

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