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>>>>> "Devon" == Devon Sean McCullough <devon(a)iac.net> writes:
Devon> In XEmacs 20.4 "Emerald" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux) of Wed Jul
Devon> 1 1998 on proton Please describe exactly what actions
Devon> triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug:
Devon> I typed Meta-Minus Meta-C in the minibuffer prompt for
Devon> string-rectangle expecting to capitalize the previous word
Devon> I had typed.
Hello Devon,
the problem exists in
(emacs-version)
"XEmacs 21.0 \"Pyrenean-pre6\" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of Wed Nov 11
1998 on DARTER2"
as well.
Adrian
Devon> Signaling: (error "There is no region now")
Devon> region-beginning() capitalize-region-or-word(-1)
Devon> call-interactively(capitalize-region-or-word)
Devon> read-minibuffer-internal("String rectangle: ") byte-code("À
Devon> Á V«ÂÅ!*Å!" [recursion-depth minibuffer-depth t
Devon> standard-input standard-output read-minibuffer-internal
Devon> prompt] 2) read-from-minibuffer("String rectangle: " nil
Devon> #<keymap minibuffer-local-map 14 entries 0x4d3> nil nil)
Devon> read-string("String rectangle: ")
Devon> call-interactively(string-rectangle)
Devon> Recent keystrokes:
Devon> escape y escape - escape y escape - escape y escape -
Devon> escape y escape - escape y escape - escape y escape -
Devon> escape y escape - escape y escape - escape y escape -
Devon> escape y escape - escape y escape - escape y escape -
Devon> escape y C-x C-x escape - C-x tab escape f escape f escape
Devon> b C-c space escape 2 escape f C-n C-x r k C-x C-x C-x r t l
Devon> o g i n escape - escape c -
Devon> Recent minibuffer messages (most recent first):
Devon> Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "*Backtrace*"> Entering
Devon> debugger... Loading rect...done Loading rect... Quit Quit
Devon> Quit: isearch Wrote /home/devon/perl/radius.pl Making
Devon> completion list... Making completion list... Entering
Devon> debugger... Quit Scan for pods, formats and here-docs
Devon> completed. Scanning for pods, formats and here-docs...
Devon> Loading cperl-mode...done Loading cperl-mode... Reading
Devon> directory /home/devon/perl/...done Reading directory
Devon> /home/devon/perl/... Reading directory
Devon> /home/devon/perl/...done Reading directory
Devon> /home/devon/perl/... Buffer has 1245 lines, 8948
Devon> characters Quit Wrote /home/devon/Accounts-1998-jOct
Devon> Replaced 0 occurrences Entering debugger... Loading
Devon> sort...done Loading sort... Making completion list...
Devon> Quit Buffer has 1218 lines, 8770 characters Reading
Devon> directory
Devon> /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/etc/raddb/...done Reading
Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/etc/raddb/...
Devon> Quit Buffer has 32 lines, 217 characters space = page
Devon> forward; b = page back; h = help; q = quit. Loading
Devon> view-less...done Loading view-less... Buffer has 1218
Devon> lines, 8770 characters Wrote
Devon> /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/var/remaining Replaced 32
Devon> occurrences Quit Making completion list... Entering
Devon> debugger... Keyboard macro defined Defining kbd macro...
Devon> Quit Wrote /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/var/initial
Devon> Quit (New file) Reading directory
Devon> /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/var/...done Reading
Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/var/... Loading
Devon> vc-hooks...done Loading vc-hooks... Reading directory
Devon> /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/etc/...done Reading
Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/etc/... Reading
Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/...done Reading
Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/... Reading
Devon> directory /home/devon/...done Reading directory
Devon> /home/devon/... Loading dired...done Loading dired...
Devon> ..loaded ~devon/.emacs Loading time...done Loading
Devon> cus-face...done Loading cus-face... Loading time... Error
Devon> (file-error Cannot open load file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/ange-ftp) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/ange-ftp Error (file-error Cannot open
Devon> load file /home/devon/emacs/uncompress) while loading patch
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/uncompress Error (file-error Cannot
Devon> open load file /home/devon/emacs/tags) while loading patch
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/tags Error (file-error Cannot open
Devon> load file /home/devon/emacs/shell) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/shell Error (file-error Cannot open load
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/rmail) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/rmail Error (file-error Cannot open load
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/mouse) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/mouse Error (file-error Cannot open load
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/man) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/man Error (file-error Cannot open load
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/isearch) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/isearch Error (file-error Cannot open
Devon> load file /home/devon/emacs/help) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/help Error (file-error Cannot open load
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/files) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/files Error (file-error Cannot open load
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/compile) while loading patch file
Devon> /home/devon/emacs/compile Error (file-error Cannot open
Devon> load file /home/devon/emacs/compare-w) while loading patch
Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/compare-w Error (file-error Cannot
Devon> open load file /home/devon/emacs/comment) while loading
Devon> patch file /home/devon/emacs/comment
Devon> Recent input: escape - escape y escape - escape y escape -
Devon> escape y escape - escape y C-x C-x escape - C-x tab escape
Devon> f escape f escape b C-c space escape 2 escape f C-n C-x r k
Devon> C-x C-x C-x r t l o g i n escape - escape c - C-p C-p C-p
Devon> C-u C-u C-u C-k C-x h escape w C-h l C-o C-y C-x h escape w
Devon> C-x o escape x b u g space escape delete delete r e p r
Devon> delete o r t tab return M e t a - C return
Devon> Recent messages: Loading rect... Loading rect...done
Devon> Entering debugger... Buffer is read-only: #<buffer
Devon> "*Backtrace*"> Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "*Help*">
Devon> Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "*Help*"> Loading emacsbug...
Devon> Loading emacsbug...done Loading mail-abbrevs... Loading
Devon> mail-abbrevs...done
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Adrian Aichner
European Design Center
Teradyne GmbH
Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208
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