Dear Bug Team! I started XEmacs with xemacs test.tex& (Init file and test.tex is included below.) I tried to insert several references using RefTeX: I typed C-c ). I typed s to select the section label type. A new buffer appeared at the bottom with the list of the sections. I pressed down to move to the first section, which was highlighted with a light green background. I pressed m to mark the reference for insertion. The entry for the first section appeared in bold and on the top a new buffer *Backtrace* whose content is included below. I expected that after pressing m, there is no error and *1* appears after > in the marked entry and not in the error message. Otherwise, XEmacs behaved as I expected. I think the problem is a missing string to glyph conversion in reftex-select-mark (supported by the wrong type argument error on the top of the backtrace) when ir calls reftex-overlay-put. I haven't found any shorter way for the conversion than (make-glyph (vector 'string ':data STRING)) where STRING is a Lisp expression evaluating to a string. I suggest the following patch, which adds the above string to glyph conversion (also for reftex-select-unmark for completeness): --- /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/reftex/reftex-sel.el 2004-03-15 16:50:20.000000000 +0100 +++ /home/gabor/.xemacs-igazi/xemacs-packages/lisp/reftex/reftex-sel.el 2006-03-07 16:23:35.000000000 +0100 ＠＠ -609,10 +609,11 ＠＠ (reftex-overlay-put ovl 'face reftex-select-mark-face) (if (featurep 'xemacs) (reftex-overlay-put ovl 'begin-glyph + (make-glyph (vector 'string ':data (if separator (format "*%c%d* " separator (length reftex-select-marked)) - (format "*%d* " (length reftex-select-marked))))) + (format "*%d* " (length reftex-select-marked))))))) (message "Entry has mark no. %d" (length reftex-select-marked)))) (defun reftex-select-mark-comma () ＠＠ -646,9 +647,10 ＠＠ (mapcar (lambda (c) (setq sep (nth 2 c)) (reftex-overlay-put (nth 1 c) 'begin-glyph + (make-glyph (vector 'string ':data (if sep (format "*%c%d* " sep (decf cnt)) - (format "*%d* " (decf cnt))))) + (format "*%d* " (decf cnt))))))) reftex-select-marked))) (message "Entry no longer marked"))) I have tried the patch and seems to fix the problem. Files for reproducing the bug: Lines starting with --- mark the beginning and end of file but do not belong to the file. --- ~/.xemacs/init.el (setq debug-on-error t) (require 'tex-site) ;AUCTeX (setq TeX-parse-self t TeX-auto-save t) ;;RefTeX (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) ; with AUCTeX LaTeX mode (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) ; with Emacs latex mode (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t) ; RefTeX -> AUCTeX --- End of ~/.xemacs/init.el --- test.tex \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \section{First section} \label{sec:first-section} \section{Second section} \label{sec:second-section} \end{document} -- End of test.tex --- Buffer *Backtrace* Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument glyphp "*1* ") reftex-overlay-put(#<extent [22, 101) 0x88d7f54 in buffer *RefTeX Select*> begin-glyph "*1* ") #<compiled-function (&optional separator) "...(96)" [separator eoe boe data ovl reftex-select-marked get-text-property :data nil error "No entry to mark at point" "Entry is already marked" previous-single-property-change next-single-property-change reftex-make-overlay reftex-overlay-put face featurep xemacs begin-glyph format "*%c%d* " "*%d* " message "Entry has mark no. %d" reftex-select-mark-face] 8 ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/reftex/reftex-sel.elc" . 10843) nil>() call-interactively(reftex-select-mark) recursive-edit() byte-code("..." [prompt keymap reftex-last-line reftex-last-data offset truncate-lines t reftex-find-start-point 0 make-local-variable reftex-last-follow-point ((byte-code "\nɓˆŠ qˆÄÃ!ˆÅÆÇÈ#ˆÅÉÊÈ#ˆ)ËÌ\"‡" ... 4)) use-local-map add-hook pre-command-hook reftex-select-pre-command-hook nil post-command-hook reftex-select-post-command-hook princ featurep xemacs run-hooks recursive-edit reftex-recursive-edit-marker] 5) byte-code("..." [((byte-code "ÆÇe\n$ˆÈyˆÉÊ!`LˆËŽÌ !ˆÍÎÏÐÆ$ˆÍÑÒÐÆ$ˆÓ!ˆ`ГˆÔÕ!«„ÖÑ!ˆ× )‡" ... 5))] 1) reftex-select-item("Select: [n]ext [p]revious [r]escan [ ]context e[x]tern [q]uit RET [?]HELP+more" " n / p Go to next/previous label (Cursor motion works as well)\n C-c C-n/p Go to next/previous section heading.\n b / l Jump back to previous selection / Reuse last referenced label.\n z Jump to a specific section, e.g. '3 z' jumps to section 3.\n g / s Update menu / Switch label type.\n r / C-u r Reparse document / Reparse entire document.\n x Switch to label menu of external document (with LaTeX package `xr').\n F t c Toggle: [F]ile borders, [t]able of contents, [c]ontext\n # % Toggle: [#] label counters, [%] labels in comments\n SPC / f Show full context in other window / Toggle follow mode.\n . Show insertion point in other window.\n v / V Toggle \\ref <-> \\vref / Rotate \\ref <=> \\fref <=> \\Fref\n TAB Enter a label with completion.\n m , - + Mark entry. `,-+' also assign a separator.! \n a / A Put all marked entries into one/many \\ref commands.\n q / RET Quit without referencing / Accept current label (also on mouse-2)." #<keymap size 52 0x1fd0> (toc "toc" " 1 First section" "/home/gabor/tmp/reftex/test.tex" #<marker at 43 in test.tex 0x8956c54> 2 "1" "\\section{First section}" 43) reftex-show-label-location nil) byte-code("..." [here-I-am typekey offset buf entries key delete-other-windows syntax-table reftex-select-label-mode switch-to-buffer-other-window reftex-make-selection-buffer-name "*RefTeX Select*" reftex-erase-buffer add-to-list selection-buffers t "---- " mode-line-buffer-identification " " global-mode-string " (" ")" " S<" refstyle ">" " -%-" 0 buffer-size nil message "Creating Selection Buffer..." reftex-insert-docstruct reftex-get-offset reftex-select-item reftex-show-label-location 2 throw exit ?g ?r ?R reftex-reparse-document ?c ?s reftex-query-label-type ?t prefix-numeric-value ?F ?\# ?% ...] 13) byte-code("..." [((byte-code "Æ ˆNÇ OÈPQ«ÉŠqˆÊ !)!ˆª‡ÉË!ˆÌ ˆ)RÈa¬ƒÈ ˆÍÎp\"ˆÏSÐÑÒÓÔTÕÖ×ØÙ¯UÚÛ U«¢ÜIÝÞ!ˆß＠ ÜABCD®\nJÜ&)ª«ˆà #ª‚ÏÏI\n®ÏÜáVWX\nâY&‰E＠EA＠FãE8KÏ ¬…äåÜ\"ˆ æa«†Ì ˆ‚Ñ
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óa«©ôH?\"?õ?H8A!®ƒö÷!?H8＠®øJqˆù ˆªÒ ;«•ú \\J\"®ƒ DCCäåÏ\"ˆª¹ ûs«°M«†MŸªF«‡FCCª‚Ü«Œ ük«„ýBLqˆäåÏ\"ˆª„öþ!ˆÜ‡" ... 13))] 1) reftex-offer-label-menu("s") #<compiled-function (&optional type no-insert cut) "...(270)" [cut label reftex-format-ref-function form type labels reftex-check-recursive-edit reftex-access-scan-info reftex-guess-label-type reftex-query-label-type reftex-typekey-check "\\vref" "\\fref" "\\ref" "\\ref{%s}" nil reftex-offer-label-menu reftex-ensure-compiled-variables concat mapconcat car "," assoc message "Quit" 2 backward-delete-char ?~ string-to-char (?\ ?\t ?\n ?\. ?~) 1 reftex-format-vref reftex-format-fref "\\Fref" reftex-format-Fref format "" refstyle sep1 sep reftex-select-return-marker current-prefix-arg reftex-vref-is-default reftex-fref-is-default reftex-typekey-to-format-alist no-insert reftex-multiref-punctuation] 5 ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/reftex/reftex-ref.elc" . 7672) nil>() call-interactively(reftex-reference) --- End of *Backtrace* Best wishes, Gabor Braun ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux gabor 2.6.15-1-686 #1 Tue Feb 21 20:25:22 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ./configure '--dynamic' '--with-msw=no' '--with-widgets=athena' '--with-athena=3d' '--with-sound=esd,native' '--with-mule' '--with-xfs' '--pdump' '--with-file-coding' XEmacs 21.4.19 "Constant Variable" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. 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Entering debugger... Loading debug...done Loading debug... Select: [n]ext [p]revious [r]escan [ ]context e[x]tern [q]uit RET [?]HELP+more Select: [n]ext [p]revious [r]escan [ ]context e[x]tern [q]uit RET [?]HELP+more Creating Selection Buffer... Loading reftex-sel...done Loading reftex-sel... Label type: [ efinNst] Label type: [ efinNst] (?=Help) Scanning document... done Scanning section 2 ... Scanning section 1 ... Scanning file /home/gabor/tmp/reftex/test.tex Scanning entire document... Loading reftex-parse...done Loading reftex-parse... Compiling label environment definitions...done