gnats/251: gnats:state-change-from-to fails with ACK message

[andrewg]

>Number:         251
>Category:       gnats
>Synopsis:       gnats:state-change-from-to fails with ACK message
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 29 01:34:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Gray
>Release:        gnats-3.113.1 with gnats/250 patch
>Organization:
>Environment:
Red Hat Linux release 7.1, kernel 2.4.2-2, i586,
Emacs 20.7.1
>Description:
When running edit-pr on Emacs (after applying the patch
attached to gnats/250), changing the State field fails
with an ACK message in the command buffer.
>How-To-Repeat:
Start Emacs.
M-x edit-pr
200<Return>
Change to <category>/200 buffer
C-c C-s
>Fix:
The immediate cause of the error message seems to be that
the default value for the "States" field as found in the
gnats::fields variable is a compiled function, i.e.
 (type-of (elt (assoc "State" gnats::fields) 2))
evaluates to
 compiled-function
but the gnats::functionp function used by
gnats::field-default does not recognise it as a function
and returns nil. Using the built in functionp function
instead appears to fix the problem in my environment. The
attached patch file for send-pr-el.in makes this change.
I don't understand enough about Emacs Lisp to know why
gnats::functionp was coded originally and what the affect
of using the built-in functionp instead will be.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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