vc-rcs-register and switches

[John Lavagnino]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381)
 of 2002-03-19 on buffy
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENG
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:


In vc-rcs-register in vc-rcs.el ($Id: vc-rcs.el,v 1.21 2001/08/28
17:05:12 spiegel Exp $):

    (let ((subdir (expand-file-name "RCS" (file-name-directory file)))
          (switches (list
                     (if (stringp vc-register-switches)
                         (list vc-register-switches)
                       vc-register-switches)
                 etc...

needs, I believe, to say instead

          (switches (append
      
so that switches is a list of strings, not a list of lists of
strings.  Otherwise, if vc-register-switches is not nil, you get
this sort of error message from call-process when it tries to do the
ci operation:

  wrong-type-argument stringp ("-x,v/ -z+00")



John Lavagnino
King's College London