bug#33503: 27.0.50; EWW error copyig URL

[Live System User]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com>
>> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 13:29:59 -0500
>> 
>>         When clicking on "Copy Page URL" while viewing a webpage
>>         using eww, I got the following error:
>> 
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>>   string-match("\\`-+\\'" nil)
>>   menu-bar-update-yank-menu(nil nil)
>>   kill-new(nil)
>>   eww-copy-page-url()
>>   funcall-interactively(eww-copy-page-url)
>>   call-interactively(eww-copy-page-url nil nil)
>>   command-execute(eww-copy-page-url)
>
> You mean, this happens every time you click on that button, no matter
> what page is being displayed?  If so, I cannot reproduce this.  I
> tried with 3 random Web pages, and none of them exhibited the problem.

        It ordinarily works for me as well.  This particular time it
        didn't.


> what page is being displayed?  If so, I cannot reproduce this.  I
> tried with 3 random Web pages, and none of them exhibited the problem.

  The *Messages* buffer contains:

Contacting host: www.osboxes.org:443
nil
menu-bar-update-yank-menu: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
nil