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27.0.50; crash in write-region

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50; crash in write-region
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:41 -0500

I had a zip file in a buffer, after M-x base64-decode-region,
and tried to write it into a file.  I got this error.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
  min(nil)
  apply(min nil)
  select-safe-coding-system-interactively(1 34936 (raw-text no-conversion) (no-conversion-multibyte) nil raw-text)
  select-safe-coding-system(1 34936 utf-8-unix nil "/home/rms/foo.zip")
  write-region(1 34936 "~/foo.zip" nil nil nil 1)



In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.30)
 of 2019-10-02 built on freetop
Repository revision: 77207ca84184fc01428154c318b21c70ad150c01
Repository branch: master
System Description: Trisquel GNU/Linux Flidas (8.0)

Recent messages:
Mark set
Saved text from "UEsDBBQAAAAIAPErLU9uYDaVeIcAAI1eAQA0AAAA"
Mark set [3 times]
File /home/rms/foo.zip already exists; overwrite anyway? (y or n) y
apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Debug on Error enabled globally
File /home/rms/foo.zip already exists; overwrite anyway? (y or n) y
Entering debugger...
Mark set
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Message #10 received at 38155-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 38155-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38155: 27.0.50; crash in write-region
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 21:44:15 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:41 -0500
> 
> 
> I had a zip file in a buffer, after M-x base64-decode-region,
> and tried to write it into a file.  I got this error.
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>   min(nil)
>   apply(min nil)
>   select-safe-coding-system-interactively(1 34936 (raw-text no-conversion) (no-conversion-multibyte) nil raw-text)
>   select-safe-coding-system(1 34936 utf-8-unix nil "/home/rms/foo.zip")
>   write-region(1 34936 "~/foo.zip" nil nil nil 1)

Thanks, fixed.

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