Bug 210752 – app-editors/emacs-22.1-r3 bibtex-mode: bibtex-convert-alien always fails

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Andreas K. Hüttel 2008-02-19 20:23:07 UTC]

In bibtex mode, trying to reformat a bibtex file with the bibtex-convert-alien command always fails. The error message is  

Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2008-02-19 21:38:15 UTC]

Created attachment 144015 [details, diff]
Patch for bibtex.el

It looks like bibtex.el was not fully converted to Emacs 22: function "sit-for" used to have 3 arguments in Emacs 21, now it has only 2.

Attached patch should fix the problem.

[Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel 2008-02-19 21:51:44 UTC]

> It looks like bibtex.el was not fully converted to Emacs 22: function "sit-for"
> used to have 3 arguments in Emacs 21, now it has only 2.

I applied the patch to /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el and restarted emacs. Still the same problem. 

Grep tells me there's still a line in the file with 
 (sit-for 1)
i.e. only one argument. ->?

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2008-02-19 22:05:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I applied the patch to /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el and
> restarted emacs. Still the same problem. 

Please try again, and do an explicit "M-x load-library RET bibtex.el RET" before.

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2008-02-19 22:20:09 UTC]

Submitted upstream: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/17543>.
Since Emacs 22.2 is already in pretest, we won't fix this in Gentoo for 22.1.

Thank you for reporting.

[Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel 2008-02-19 22:54:48 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > I applied the patch to /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el and
> > restarted emacs. Still the same problem. 
> 
> Please try again, and do an explicit "M-x load-library RET bibtex.el RET"
> before.
> 

Thank you - now it works fine. 

[Comment 6 Ulrich Müller 2008-02-21 13:21:22 UTC]

This bug has been fixed in CVS upstream. emacs-cvs-22.1.9999 should be fine now, as well as the upcoming emacs-cvs-22.1.92 and emacs-22.2.