Re: autoc-apitalize blocking call to accept-process-output quit inhibited

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 6/26/13 10:28 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Concerning auto-capitalize.el another error Iobtain is the following:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>    re-search-backward(nil nil t)
>    auto-capitalize(28 29 0)
>    self-insert-command(1)
>    call-interactively(self-insert-command nil nil)

There are 3 calls to re-search-backward in auto-capitalize.el, all with nil and
t as the optional 2nd and 3rd args respectively.

The 1st call assumes that paragraph-start is a valid non-nil regexp, the 2nd
call assumes that sentence-end is a valid non-nil regexp, and the 3rd call
passes abbrev-regexp which it has just bound to a constant string.

So either paragraph-start or sentence-end is null in the buffer where the
auto-capitalize function is running.  I suppose those variable references
should be changed to something like these to try to avoid that error:

(or paragraph-start (default-value 'paragraph-start))

(or sentence-end (and (fboundp 'sentence-end) (sentence-end))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA