Bug#137353: gettext: po mode error (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I have received this report from the Debian bug system.
I can reproduce it by doing

emacs21 does_not_exist_yet.po

using the following .emacs file:

(setq auto-mode-alist
(cons '("\\.po[tx]?\\'\\|\\.po\\." . po-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(autoload 'po-mode "gettext/po-mode"
  "Major mode for translators to edit PO files" t)
 (autoload 'po-find-file-coding-system "gettext/po-mode")
 (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.po[tx]?\\'\\|\\.po\\."
  'po-find-file-coding-system)

and po-mode.el from gettext-0.11.

[ Please keep the Cc: lines when replying ].
Thanks.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:12:54 +0000
From: Neil Darlow <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Subject: Bug#137353: gettext: po mode error

Package: gettext
Version: 0.10.40-3
Severity: important

Attempting to open a new .po, .pot or .pox in emacs21-21.7 produces the
following error message in the scratch buffer:

Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

This error is output before attempting to do anything with the file
other than open it as a new file.