GNU bug report logs - #39612
26.3; rmail-summary-delete-forward: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ed Sabol <edward.j.sabol <at> nasa.gov>
Cc: Ed Sabol <esabol <at> milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>, 39612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39612: 26.3; rmail-summary-delete-forward: Wrong type
 argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:55:18 +0100

Ed Sabol <edward.j.sabol <at> nasa.gov> writes:

> I kept getting the error "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil" if I
> tried to delete a message immediate after retrieving new messages. I finally
> figured out a solution. In `rmail-summary-delete-forward', please change:
>
>       (with-current-buffer rmail-buffer
> 	(rmail-delete-message)
> 	(setq del-msg rmail-current-message))
>
> to
>
>       (with-current-buffer rmail-buffer
> 	(setq del-msg rmail-current-message)
> 	(rmail-delete-message))

OK, that seems like a harmless enough change, even if I'm not an rmail
user, so I've applied it to Emacs 28.

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