kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones) (07/24/89)
Bud Boman writes: > I've noticed execcmd.el and another recent posting, generate.el are > incompatible. That is, while execcmd.elc is loaded generate.elc > doesn't work. > > Has anyone else noticed (and, hopefully, fixed) this? I tried generate.el with execcmd.el loaded and without, and it didn't work either way. The error message both times was: bad arg to rev-sub-list
ecb@utrccm (ecb) (07/27/89)
on 24 Jul 89 13:51:06 GMT,
Kyle Jones <rti!talos!kjones@mcnc.ORG> said:
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Kyle> Bud Boman writes:
Kyle> > I've noticed execcmd.el and another recent posting, generate.el are
Kyle> > incompatible. That is, while execcmd.elc is loaded generate.elc
Kyle> > doesn't work.
Kyle> >
Kyle> > Has anyone else noticed (and, hopefully, fixed) this?
Kyle> I tried generate.el with execcmd.el loaded and without, and it didn't
Kyle> work either way. The error message both times was:
Kyle> bad arg to rev-sub-list
Hmmm . . . "'Curiouser and curiouser,' said Alice."
You're right. Closer investigation on my part shows that generate.el
works (and is compatible with execcmd.elc -- scratch my original
request) but generate.elc doesn't work (with or without execcmd.elc)
and gives the error message:
Wrong type argument:char-or-string-p \^J
at the point of writing the documentation string.
Can anyone explain this? What does byte compilation do, exactly? (Or,
at least what is it **supposed** to do, assuming no bugs?)
Bud Boman
United Technologies Research Center
(203) 727-7128
ecb@utrccm.smc.utc.com