Re: XEmacs nox11 startup issue

Vin Shelton <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Nov 2015 16:11:59 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta
Message-ID <CACeGjnVfeRAmiHUsU2gF37z9RiU=WSkZF+_CjhLqw+iW6d9pqw@mail.gmail.com>
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 <[email protected]> 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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