================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I wanted to comment a region with `comment-region'. Unfortunatley I got that error: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p nil) 1-(nil) (aref str (1- (match-end 1))) (make-string n (aref str (1- ...))) (if multi (make-string n (aref str ...))) (when multi (make-string n (aref str ...))) (concat lpad s (when multi (make-string n ...)) rpad) (if (not (symbolp n)) (concat lpad s (when multi ...) rpad) (concat (mapconcat ... lpad "") (regexp-quote s) (when multi "+") (mapconcat ... rpad ""))) (let ((s ...) (lpad ...) (rpad ...) (multi ...)) (if (not ...) (concat lpad s ... rpad) (concat ... ... ... ...))) (progn (string-match "\\`\\s-*\\(.*?\\)\\s-*\\'" str) (let (... ... ... ...) (if ... ... ...))) (if (and (stringp str) (not ...)) (progn (string-match "\\`\\s-*\\(.*?\\)\\s-*\\'" str) (let ... ...))) (when (and (stringp str) (not ...)) (string-match "\\`\\s-*\\(.*?\\)\\s-*\\'" str) (let (... ... ... ...) (if ... ... ...))) comment-padright(";" 0) comment-region(321 456 nil) call-interactively(comment-region) I am not sure if it has to do with the use of `match-end'. That error happens in a Lisp buffer as well as in a eg. C buffer. As a workaround I set `comment-quote-nested' nil ,----[ C-h v comment-quote-nested RET ] | `comment-quote-nested' is a variable declared in Lisp. | -- loaded from "/usr/src/cvs/xemacs-21.5/lisp/newcomment.elc" | | Value: t | | Documentation: | Non-nil if nested comments should be quoted. | This should be locally set by each major mode if needed. | `---- Why is that variable not buffer-local if it should be set by each major mode? ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: CYGWIN_ME-4.90 windoof 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin ./configure '--use-kkcc' '--pdump' '--with-site-lisp=yes' '--with-x11=no' '--with-mule=yes' '--error-checking=none' '--site-includes=/usr/include/libpng/' '--package-path=/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/:/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages/:/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/' XEmacs 21.5-b12 "carrot" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /usr/src/cvs/xemacs-21.5 Installation prefix: /usr/local Additional header files: /usr/include/libpng/ Operating system description file: `s/cygwin32.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../include/noX -I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../include/noX -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpacked -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -g -O3 Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes Window System: Compiling in support for the Microsoft window system. Using MS-Windows menubars. Using MS-Windows scrollbars. Using MS-Windows dialog boxes. Using MS-Windows native widgets. Compiling in support for Drag'n'Drop (EXPERIMENTAL). - Drag'n'Drop prototype: msw. TTY: Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. 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