Re: number-or-marker-p
James LewisMoss wrote:
>>>>>>On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:05:44 -0700, Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu> said:
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> Jim> Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, (+ -4)
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> Jim> This happens (i) when I try to do filename completion with
> Jim> `visit-file' or `dired'
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Do you mean `find-file'? I checked and found there is no such a thing as
`visit-file'.
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> Jim> or (ii) when I call `switch-to-buffer-in-another-frame'
> Jim> (C-x 5 b).
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> Jim> It happens only occasionally, though, and I can always fix it by
> Jim> exiting the emacs session and restarting. I don't know how to
> Jim> reproduce the behaviour reliably, but I can be sure that it will
> Jim> happen ultimately if the emacs session is long enough.
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How long is enough?
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> Jim> Does anyone know how I might trace this problem to its origins?
> Jim> Or solve it? Thanks very much in advance,
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>Likely setting the var debug-on-error to t will give you a backtrace
>(I'm xemacs guy and it works there).
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Well, I'm using GNU Emacs 20.7 on woody as well but never come across
such things.
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