lijewski@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Lijewski) (01/23/90)
I am trying to get GNU Emacs 18.55 up on running on a system for
which no config files exist and am having what is admittedly a minor
but annoying problem. When I start up Emacs in it's own X Window I
get the following error:
Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil
This does not happen if I start GNU Emacs up inside of an already
existing xterm session, or from a terminal. This is a system for
which CANNOT_DUMP is defined, so I can watch what is being loaded from
loadup.el. The above message occurs after I see the message telling me
that the documentation pointers have been successfully found. I do
not have a site-init.el, so, as far as I can tell, the message occurs
when the startup code is run via loadup.el using (eval top-level).
I haven't noticed any "problem" that this message should be
pointing out to me. The only minor annoyance is that the startup
message is not printed out. I am concerned about loosing GNU Emacs on
new users without the startup message being displayed.
I have found that if I set term_file_prefix to nil in my
.emacs, I don't get this error. One option would be for me to put
this in our default.el. Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
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