Re: xemacs update
Re: xemacs update
- Subject: Re: xemacs update
- From: robert delius royar <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:19:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: An Apple OS X end user
- Priority: NEW
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 about 10:19 +0100 UTC Lawrence Paulson wrote:
> File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument
> number-char-or-marker-p nil\
> )
> Without the -nw switch, xemacs gets much further before hanging with
> the usual error message "BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)".
It is possible that somewhere in the code there is a test for what system
you are running on and that the test is guessing you are on windows/cygwin.
It then passes a file name such as "d:\\path\\file" to a function which
knows you are on a unix system and converts this to "d:\path\file", tries to
open the file and discovers that '\' is an incorrect character in a file
string.
The second error could be an MS-DOSism because '/' is the command parameter
marker for command.com and cmd.exe. If the code somewhere expects '/' to
mark parameters and is receiving a string such as "~/path/file", it may be
seeing the '/'s as parameter markers.
This could easily occur were you to download the zip file rather
than the gz file from the proof site, but it may be deeper within the code.
I just unpacked the gz to my desktop and issued the following commands in a
running XEmacs 21.5.b14
M-x load-file ~/Desktop/ProofGeneral-3.4/ProofGeneral/generic/proof-site.el
M-x load-file ~/Desktop/ProofGeneral-3.4/ProofGeneral/generic/proof-splash.el
They loaded without error, but I don't know what to do to further test.
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