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29.1; MH-E: creating a new folder can sometimes fail with a Lisp error

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Message #11 received at 67361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mike Kupfer <kupfer <at> rawbw.com>
To: Chris Siebenmann <cks.emacsbugs-01 <at> cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: 67361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Bill Wohler <wohler <at> newt.com>
Subject: Re: bug#67361: 29.1;
 MH-E: creating a new folder can sometimes fail with a Lisp error
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:30:55 -0800

> > From: Chris Siebenmann <cks.emacsbugs-01 <at> cs.toronto.edu>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:45:11 -0500
> > 
> > Under some conditions, creating a new (N)MH folder in MH-E can fail with
> > a Lisp error of 'Wrong type argument: stringp, nil'. This happens if for
> > some reason you have loaded/required mh-speed.el but have not created a
> > speedbar.

This sounds familiar.  I don't use the speedbar, but I sometimes hit
this issue and find that (boundp 'mh-speed-folder-map) returns t.  I
thought there was an open bug for this already, but I'm not finding it.
I'll look some more over the holiday weekend.

mike

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