1:52 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 08:09:13 -0500, Vin Shelton wrote:
The problem lies with your startup script (either .emacs or
.xemacs/init.el).
There isn't any:
% ls ~/.{,x}emacs*
ls: No match.
%
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3:29 p.m.
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Dear Hauke,
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Hauke Fath <hf(a)spg.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 08:09:13 -0500, Vin Shelton wrote:
> The problem lies with your startup script (either .emacs or
> .xemacs/init.el).
There isn't any:
% ls ~/.{,x}emacs*
ls: No match.
%
OK, so I guess the problem is with autoloads, probably in
guided-tour.el, according to your previous sleuthing.
- Vin
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3:48 p.m.
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 10:29:52 -0500, Vin Shelton wrote:
OK, so I guess the problem is with autoloads, probably in
guided-tour.el, according to your previous sleuthing.
A ktrace confirmed that, indeed, guided-tour is the last thing loaded
before the error message.
I am scraping together what little elisp fu I have for a workaround...
Cheerio,
hauke
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4:41 p.m.
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 10:29:52 -0500, Vin Shelton wrote:
OK, so I guess the problem is with autoloads, probably in
guided-tour.el, according to your previous sleuthing.
Hm. It appears to boil down to this little gem from guided-tour.el:
;; #### this probably should move to help.el or menubar-items.el
(defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional menubar)
"Return the Help submenu for MENUBAR if present, else nil."
(assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar)))
which does not like default-menubar to be undefined (or evaluating to
nil, if previously defvar'ed).
At the top of the file, I
(setq debug-on-error t)
and then tried something along the lines of
(defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional menubar)
(when (boundp 'default-menubar)
((assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar))))
but all I get is a (wrong-type-argument consp nil).
Any ideas?
Cheerio,
hauke
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Hauke Fath writes:
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 10:29:52 -0500, Vin Shelton wrote:
> OK, so I guess the problem is with autoloads, probably in
> guided-tour.el, according to your previous sleuthing.
Hm. It appears to boil down to this little gem from guided-tour.el:
;; #### this probably should move to help.el or menubar-items.el
(defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional menubar)
"Return the Help submenu for MENUBAR if present, else nil."
(assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar)))
which does not like default-menubar to be undefined (or evaluating to
nil, if previously defvar'ed).
At the top of the file, I
(setq debug-on-error t)
and then tried something along the lines of
(defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional menubar)
(when (boundp 'default-menubar)
((assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar))))
but all I get is a (wrong-type-argument consp nil).
One too many pairs of parens, I'm guessing. You want
(defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional menubar)
(when (boundp 'default-menubar)
(assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar))))
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On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:07:26 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> (defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional
menubar)
> (when (boundp 'default-menubar)
> ((assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar))))
>
> but all I get is a (wrong-type-argument consp nil).
One too many pairs of parens, I'm guessing. You want
(defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional menubar)
(when (boundp 'default-menubar)
(assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar))))
... this is what I have - I copied from memory, sorry. I am not even
clear what exactly triggers the error
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument consp nil)
signal(wrong-type-argument (consp nil))
signal-error(wrong-type-argument (consp nil))
normal-top-level()
-- is there any way to find out in the elisp debugger? Since edebug
needs "instrumenting", I guess it won't work for debugging startup, and
I have not been able to trigger the issue by loading guided-tour.el
into a vanill axemacs.
Cheerio,
hauke
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9:11 p.m.
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I believe that your symptoms indicate that the problem is caused by an
;;; autoload
statement somewhere in guided-tour.el.
Please look in the generated auto-autoloads.el file for the code which
is causing the error.
I am sorry that I am away from my development environment ATM and
cannot investigate further at this time.
- Vin
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Hauke Fath <hf(a)spg.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:07:26 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>> (defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional menubar)
>> (when (boundp 'default-menubar)
>> ((assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar))))
>>
>> but all I get is a (wrong-type-argument consp nil).
>
> One too many pairs of parens, I'm guessing. You want
>
> (defun guided-tour-find-menubar-help-menu (&optional menubar)
> (when (boundp 'default-menubar)
> (assoc "%_Help" (or menubar default-menubar))))
... this is what I have - I copied from memory, sorry. I am not even
clear what exactly triggers the error
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument consp nil)
signal(wrong-type-argument (consp nil))
signal-error(wrong-type-argument (consp nil))
normal-top-level()
-- is there any way to find out in the elisp debugger? Since edebug
needs "instrumenting", I guess it won't work for debugging startup, and
I have not been able to trigger the issue by loading guided-tour.el
into a vanill axemacs.
Cheerio,
hauke
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