Bug 26567 – PSGML setq sgml-catalog-files wrong argument

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Horace Ip 2003-08-13 14:00:50 UTC]

In psgml init file   "50psgml-gentoo.el"

(setq sgml-catalog-files "/etc/sgml/catalog")
should be

(setq sgml-catalog-files '("CATALOG" "/etc/sgml/catalog"))

PSGML is expect a list for CATALOG entries.


ref: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lenst/about_psgml/psgml.html

sgml-catalog-files 	User Option
This is a list of catalog entry files. The files are in the format defined in
the SGML Open Draft Technical Resolution on Entity Management. The Emacs
variable is initialized from the environment variable SGML_CATALOG_FILES or if
this variable is undefined the default is

("CATALOG" "/usr/local/lib/sgml/CATALOG")


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start SGML/XML mode 
2.When it try to parsing DTD
3.

Actual Results:  
listp, wrong argument

[Comment 1 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-09-14 07:50:25 UTC]

could you possibly provide a patch against the relevant source ? would makes things a bit easier. thanks.

[Comment 2 Horace Ip 2003-09-17 19:57:13 UTC]

This is my working 50psgml-gentoo.el
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;;; psgml site-lisp configuration

(autoload 'sgml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit SGML files." t)
(autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t)

(setq sgml-catalog-files '("CATALOG" "/etc/sgml/catalog"))

[Comment 3 Abdul-Wahid Paterson 2003-10-01 13:04:08 UTC]

I also had exactly the same problem on my machines.

The error I got was:

Wrong argument type: listp, "/etc/sgml/catalog"

I solved the problem by deleting the 
(setq sgml-catalog-files "/etc/sgml/catalog")
line altogether so that emacs uses the SGML_CATALOG_FILES that is already
set on my system. It then works fine. However, SGML_CATALOG_TOOLS is set
by the sgmltools package so if it is not installed my fix would not work.

[Comment 4 Ben Cornett 2003-10-21 11:33:44 UTC]

Created attachment 19596 [details, diff]
patch to files/50psgml-gentoo.el

This patch should close this bug.

[Comment 5 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-10-22 21:49:55 UTC]

Matt, can we get some app-emacs input here ? is this patch fine ?

[Comment 6 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2003-10-23 00:11:41 UTC]

Yes, it is fine and will solve the problem. '("CATALOG" "/etc/sgml/catalog")makes
a list of filenames while "/etc/sgml/catalog" alone doesn't.

[Comment 7 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-10-23 01:53:54 UTC]

Thanks usata :), Fixed in portage now.