================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I believe setenv, called interactively (as described in the Recent keystrokes) section is broken when non-alphabetic characters are typed into the mini-buffer to set an environment variable value. When such keys are typed, I get the error message detailed in "Recent messages (most recent first)" section: Wrong type argument: vectorp, "perforce:1666" Setting the target environment variable name through the mini-buffer seems fine though. I believe I know where the problem lies. So, I had a quick look through CVS to see if it has already been fixed. The two lisp files involved in the error have not changed between b23 and b24, so I guess it's a current problem. I believe the code in error is in the xemacs lisp library file, process.el. Follows a snip starting from process.el:583: ;; Here finally we specify the args to call setenv with. (list var (read-from-minibuffer (format "Set %s to value: " var) nil nil nil 'setenv-history (getenv var)))))) Note carefully the arguments to read-from-minibuffer. Follows a snip starting from minibuf:345: (defun read-from-minibuffer (prompt &optional initial-contents keymap readp history abbrev-table default) counting of the arguments: (format...) -> prompt nil -> initial-contents nil -> keymap nil -> readp 'setenv-history -> history (getenv...) -> abbrev-table (I believe this is the root cause) -> default (and it seems logical that the value of (getebv var) should be the default) I hope this helps... but I do have one further comment. Are you sure about the rational of adding the setenv function to process.el? It used to exists *solely* in env.el out of xemacs-base as far as I know. Now I have it multiply defined. One rationale that plays out in my head is that setenv is a pretty core operation, so that if your packages were broken or unavailable, it should still find them out of the xemacs core installation. If my rationale is right, please confirm that setenv is left in xemacs-base for backwards compatibility? Regards, Shaddy PS: Please honour my reply-to. ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 vzell-de 1.5.19s(0.138/4/2) 20050929 12:58:53 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin /usr/src/xemacs-21.5.23/configure '--srcdir=/usr/src/xemacs-21.5.23' '--prefix=/usr' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--with-statedir=/var' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/xemacs-21.5-b23/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man/man1' '--with-package-path=/usr/local/share/xemacs/site-packages:/usr/share/xemacs/site-packages:/usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages:/usr/share/xemacs/mule-packages' '--enable-mule' '--with-msw=yes' '--enable-modules=no' '--with-dragndrop=no' '--enable-bignum=gmp' '--with-athena=3d' 'CPPFLAGS=' XEmacs 21.5-b23 "daikon" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'. 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