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bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:26:48 +0200 |
> From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:46:17 -0400
>
> I get the error "Wrong-type-argument: stringp, nil" when I try to start
> Forms Mode with
>
> M-x forms-find-file RET ~/Documents/test-forms.el RET
>
> The backtrace is:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> expand-file-name(nil)
> find-file-noselect(nil)
> forms-mode(t)
> forms-find-file("~/Documents/test-forms.el")
> funcall-interactively(forms-find-file "~/Documents/test-forms.el")
> call-interactively(forms-find-file record nil)
> command-execute(forms-find-file record)
> execute-extended-command(nil "forms-find-file" nil)
> funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "forms-find-file"
> nil)
> call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
> command-execute(execute-extended-command)
>
> My forms control file (~/Documents/test-forms.el) is as follows:
>
> ;; This demo visits ‘/etc/passwd’.
>
> (setq forms-file "/etc/passwd")
> (setq forms-number-of-fields 7)
> (setq forms-read-only t) ; to make sure
> (setq forms-field-sep ":")
> ;; Don’t allow multi-line fields.
> (setq forms-multi-line nil)
>
> (setq forms-format-list
> (list
> "====== /etc/passwd ======\n\n"
> "User : " 1
> " Uid: " 3
> " Gid: " 4
> "\n\n"
> "Name : " 5
> "\n\n"
> "Home : " 6
> "\n\n"
> "Shell: " 7
> "\n"))
>
> which is copied directly from the example in the Forms manual
> (info "(forms) Format Description"). And /etc/passwd exists and is
> accessible from Emacs.
>
> I get exactly the same error with all forms control files I've tried,
> even something as seemingly simple as:
>
> (setq forms-file "~/test-forms.dat")
> (setq forms-number-of-fields 2)
> (setq forms-format-list
> (list
> "Field1 : " 1
> "Field2 : " 2
> "\n"))
>
> with a not yet existent data file.
I cannot reproduce this, neither with the 25.0.92 pretest nor with the
current emacs-25 branch. I tried both control files, and they both
worked (although I needed to change the file names a bit to adapt them
to my system's directory hierarchy).
Does this happen for you in "emacs -Q"?
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file, N. Jackson, 2016/03/10
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file, John Mastro, 2016/03/10
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file, N. Jackson, 2016/03/11
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file, N. Jackson, 2016/03/11
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file, N. Jackson, 2016/03/11
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/12
- bug#22982: 25.0.92; Forms Mode seems to fail to open data file, N. Jackson, 2016/03/12