GNU bug report logs - #4229
23.1; wrong-type arg: char or string-p, nil

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:45:07 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 4250

Done: Karl Fogel <kfogel <at> red-bean.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: <4229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#4229: 23.1; wrong-type arg: char or string-p, nil
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:09:23 -0700

> > emacs -Q
> > M-x set-variable debug-on-error t
> > M-x load-file /......./bookmark.el
> > C-x r l
> 
> > raises error:
> 
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument 
> char-or-string-p nil)
> >   insert(nil)
> >   (prog1 (insert (bookmark-location bookmark)) (if (and ... ...)
> 
> I'm afraid I can't reproduce this.  Maybe you need a 
> particular bookmark
> file.  Could you try to make a stand-alone recipe?

Please merge this with bug #4250, which expresses the problem more generally. 

It is a filename entry with nil cdr that causes the error here. Emacs should
simply ignore such a bookmark; it shouldn't cough up a wrong-type-arg error.
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