"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the last week, sometimes maybe 1 in 20 times, "C-x C-f (find-file) > RET" won't find the given file. However, the symptom is that if I'm > editing buffer "foo", and run find-file to open file bar, instead of > getting two equally-sized windows containing "foo" and "bar", I get two > "foo" windows, one of which is only three lines high. > > Is this reproducible?
Yes! If you find a file that is under revision control that you do not have permission to edit, you get the following: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) file-symlink-p(nil) vc-find-file-hook() run-hooks(find-file-hook) after-find-file(nil t) find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer interfaces> "/etc/network/interfaces" nil nil "/etc/network/interfaces" (80445 769)) find-file-noselect("/etc/network/interfaces" nil nil t) find-file("/etc/network/interfaces" t) call-interactively(find-file) Oddly, this alternates. The next time you use C-x C-f on the same file, it succeeds. Kill the buffer and find it again and it fails. The use of revert-buffer on such a read-only buffer fails in the same way every time. > If so, can you please debug it? Not completely. I tracked the problem down to find-file-name-handler setting buffer-file-name to nil (maybe that's enough info to remind someone of a change they made in the past couple of weeks). Here's the stack at that time: Debugger entered--returning value: nil find-file-name-handler("/etc/network/interfaces" vc-registered) * vc-registered("/etc/network/interfaces") * vc-backend("/etc/network/interfaces") * byte-code(... * vc-find-file-hook() run-hooks(find-file-hook) after-find-file(nil nil t t nil) revert-buffer(t) call-interactively(revert-buffer) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) find-file-name-handler is down in C which is beyond my ability to debug. But the recipe is: 1. emacs -q 2. Visit a file that is under revision control and owned by someone else (in my case /etc/network/interfaces is owned by `root' and is checked into Subversion and I'm trying to edit it as `wohler'). 3. If that doesn't bomb out, revert-buffer will. I hope that provides enough info for someone else to debug this readily. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug