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hui:menu-choose: Wrong type argument: characterp, 176160776

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From: Robert Weiner <rsw <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp Ludwig <info <at> philippludwig.net>
Cc: hyperb <at> 4qqqq.de, 72593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72593: hui:menu-choose: Wrong type argument: characterp, 176160776
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:46:16 -0400

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Thanks.  If Hyperbole rebound the key and thus let you invoke Hyperbole
with {C-h h}, then it is still unclear why you got the error but since you
have proved the cause was the single line in your init file, please close
this bug report and enjoy the latest Hyperbole.  -- rsw

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 4:10 AM Philipp Ludwig <info <at> philippludwig.net>
wrote:

> Thanks for your support. I should have thought of running emacs -q
> before filing this report. I narrowed it down to this line in my init
> file:
>
>     (global-set-key (kbd "C-h h") nil)  ; view-hello-file
>
> Before I used hyperbole, I disabled this shortcut since I don't need it.
> Now when I started using hyperbole, I completely forgot about this line.
> By removing it everything is fine now.
>
> Sorry for wasting your time. But maybe someone else has this problem as
> well and stumbles upon this message.
>
> Best Regards
>
>
> Robert Weiner <rsw <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I ran a raw Emacs 29.4 with Hyperbole 9.0.1 and the minibuffer menu
> worked fine without error.
> >
> > The problem is that you are producing something from your keyboard that
> is not a valid character that doesn't normally
> > happen.  My guess it is related to another package that you'll have to
> find and eliminate.  Try {C-h l} to see what your
> > prior keystrokes were before this gets triggered.  Does the minibuffer
> menu fail in all cases for you, everytime you
> > press normal letter keys?  -- rsw
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 11:38 AM Philipp Ludwig <hyperb <at> 4qqqq.de> wrote:
> >
> >  Since upgrading to Emacs 29.4, I get this error when using opening the
> >  Hyperbole menu and choosing any option:2
> >
> >  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 176160776)
> >     hui:menu-item(66 nil nil nil (("Hy9.0.1>") ("Act" hui:hbut-act
> >  "Activate button at point or prompt for a labeled b...") ("Butfile/"
> >  (menu . butfile) "Quick access button files menus.") ("Cust/" (menu .
> >  cust) "Customize Hyperbole by setting major options.") ("Doc/" (menu .
> >  doc) "Quick access to Hyperbole documentation.") ("Ebut/" (menu . ebut)
> >  "Explicit button commands.") ("Find/" (menu . find) "Find matching line
> >  commands.") ("Gbut/" (menu . gbut) "Global button commands.") ("Hist"
> >  hhist:pop "Jumps back to location prior to last Hyperbole but...")
> >  ("Ibut/" (menu . ibut) "Implicit button and button type commands.")
> >  ("Kotl/" (menu . kotl) "Autonumbered outlining and hyperlink
> >  capabilities.") ("Msg/" (menu . msg) "Mail and News messaging
> >  capabilities.") ("Rolo/" (menu . hyrolo) "Hierarchical, multi-file rolo
> >  lookup and edit comm...") ("Screen/" (menu . screen) "Screen display
> >  management commands.") ("Win/" (menu . win) "Window configuration
> >  management commands.")))
> >     hui:menu-choose((("Hy9.0.1>") ("Act" hui:hbut-act "Activate button at
> >  point or prompt for a labeled b...") ("Butfile/" (menu . butfile) "Quick
> >  access button files menus.") ("Cust/" (menu . cust) "Customize Hyperbole
> >  by setting major options.") ("Doc/" (menu . doc) "Quick access to
> >  Hyperbole documentation.") ("Ebut/" (menu . ebut) "Explicit button
> >  commands.") ("Find/" (menu . find) "Find matching line commands.")
> >  ("Gbut/" (menu . gbut) "Global button commands.") ("Hist" hhist:pop
> >  "Jumps back to location prior to last Hyperbole but...") ("Ibut/" (menu
> >  . ibut) "Implicit button and button type commands.") ("Kotl/" (menu .
> >  kotl) "Autonumbered outlining and hyperlink capabilities.") ("Msg/"
> >  (menu . msg) "Mail and News messaging capabilities.") ("Rolo/" (menu .
> >  hyrolo) "Hierarchical, multi-file rolo lookup and edit comm...")
> >  ("Screen/" (menu . screen) "Screen display management commands.")
> >  ("Win/" (menu . win) "Window configuration management commands.")) nil
> >  nil)
> >     hui:menu-act(hyperbole nil nil nil)
> >     hyperbole(nil nil nil nil)
> >     funcall-interactively(hyperbole nil nil nil nil)
> >     command-execute(hyperbole)
> >
> >  I tried versions 9.0.1 from elpa and 20240811.524 from melpa - same
> >  issue. Is there anything else I can try?
> >
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> >  Bug-hyperbole <at> gnu.org
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>

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