Description of problem: When we start the emacs to open a file, it gives an error message as follows: Symbol's value as variable is void: inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs.x86_64 1:24.0.95-1.fc17 How reproducible: whenever I start the emacs Steps to Reproduce: 1. emacs -nw <file name> 2. 3. Actual results: Symbol's value as variable is void: inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps Expected results: Additional info:
I just ran into this. There are initialization files /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnu-smalltalk/smalltalk-mode.elc /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/goodies/ctypes.elc ... (and the corresponding .el files) that refer to the variable inihibit-first-line-modes-regexps, but it has been renamed in recent versions of emacs. Removing those files got rid of this problem for me. There might be other elisp packages with the same problem. I found these by using grep: grep -r 'inhibit-first-line' /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp then rpm -qf /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnu-smalltalk/smalltalk-mode.elc etc. to find the package they belong to. There might be other emacs packages with this problem that I just don't happen to have. The real fix is for all those packages to be updated and rebuilt. Meanwhile, at least on my system, I got rid of the problem by removing the emacs-gnu-smalltalk and emacs-goodies packages: yum erase emacs-gnu-smalltalk* emacs-goodies*
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When the packages like emacs-gnu-smalltalk* and emacs-goodies* will be rebuilt that all will work. Corresponding bugzillas reports were opened: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833100 for emacs-gnu-smalltalk* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833103 for emacs-goodies*