From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems with eudc-expand-inline in EUDC
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:31:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iq8s5crj.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pr33t3tv.fsf@zinc.branchcut.ath.cx>
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:34:04 -0400 Desmond Rivet <desmond_news@videotron.ca> wrote:
DR> I'm attempting to connect to an LDAP server containing some email
DR> contacts. The relavent portion of my .gnus.el looks like this:
...
DR> I type "m" to bring up a mail buffer. Then I type, for example, "david"
DR> in the the To: field and I type "TAB" (associated with
DR> eudc-expand-inline). What I *expect* to see is some kind of indication
DR> that "david" doesn't exist in LDAP, or that he does and here he is, or
DR> that emacs had trouble connecting to the server, etc. Something along
DR> these lines. What I see instead is this (once I turn on debug):
DR> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil)
DR> byte-code("...")
DR> eudc-expand-inline()
DR> call-interactively(eudc-expand-inline nil nil)
DR> I'm a bit mystified by this. I presume that eudc-expand-inline is
DR> epxpecting a string as one of its arguments, and is instead getting nil.
DR> The help for the function doesn't mention a string arugment. It only
DR> mentions the replace-p argument.
DR> If I had to take a stab at guessing, I would say that eudc-expand-inline
DR> takes the query string (extracted from the buffer before the point) as
DR> a parameter, and this string is not being extracted properly.
I think this is an Emacs issue, not Gnus-specific. Could you try to
replicate it with a recent Emacs checkout and submit it as an Emacs bug
if necessary?
Thanks
Ted
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