Bug 61336

Summary:	emacs does not load files from a command line
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	emacs	Assignee:	Phil Copeland <copeland>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	bhu, copeland, teg
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2002-03-18 01:09:10 UTC

Description of Problem:

An attempt to start emacs like that 'emacs -nw file.txt' results
in a message:

Invalid read syntax: ") or . in a vector"

and 'file.txt' is not loaded.  One ends in a *scratch* buffer.

As far as I can see this complaint is coming from (byte-compile-file)
or at least from some function called by it.

After emacs started (find-file) called interactively works.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-03-18 17:29:48 UTC

Alpha-specific - reassigning.

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2002-04-14 23:11:51 UTC

It is not really Alpha specific.  The following three files are corrupted:

- /usr/share/emacs/20.7/leim/leim-list.el
- /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc
- /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/python-mode.elc

'leim-list.el' is _different_ than one from RH 7.2 for x86 and contains
an obvious garbage like that:
 (register-input-method
  "hebrew" "Hebrew" 'quail-u11-22  Neil Booth  <neilb>
 
 	* cpplex.c (trigraph_l/hebrew")

Replacing it and byte-recompiling two other files solves emacs startup
troubles.

Comment 3 Michal Jaegermann 2002-04-14 23:19:29 UTC

I should add that I do not know if other elc files are not shot.
Those listed above were just those which I found trying to start
emacs and to recompile buggered python-mode.elc

Comment 4 Phil Copeland 2002-04-15 02:56:24 UTC

Trond, your ball. Fix it.

Comment 5 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-04-15 14:14:12 UTC

This was never a problem on x86. Alpha specific, not my problem.

Comment 6 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-04-15 14:14:55 UTC

(as in: Just rebuild the thing :) We were told not to do alpha specific bugs)

Comment 7 Phil Copeland 2002-04-17 23:28:36 UTC

I've checked this out. There is nothing wrong with the package as it stands at
this moment. 
emacs -nm <file> works out of the box and is not corrupted. I do not know if
this was simply rebuilt befire I got to look at.

Closing