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From: kooper@cc.gatech.edu (Rob Kooper)
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Subject: display-time in echo area
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I set the variable display-time-echo-area to t so it will display in
my modeline. Now when I start display-time I get the following
backtrace, sorry my elisp is not good so no patch.

Signaling: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p ("Tue Mar  4 10:50am" (#<extent [detached) 0x1056ea50 from buffer *scratch*> . #<glyph (buffer) #<image-specifier global=(((x) . [xpm :color-symbols (("backgroundToolBarColor" . "Gray75") ("background" . #<color-specifier global=((x) . "gray80") fallback=(((tty) . []) ((x) . "white")) 0x176>) ("foreground" . #<color-specifier global=((x) . "black") fallback=(((tty) . []) ((x) . "black")) 0x174>)) :file "/net/hg74/kooper/xemacs-20/lib/xemacs-20.1-b5/lisp/../etc/time/no-letter.xpm" ...]) ((tty) . [string :data "/net/hg74/kooper/xemacs-20/lib/xemacs-20.1-b5/lisp/../etc/time/no-letter.xpm"])) fallback=((nil . [nothing])) 0x10b8>0x10b7>)))
  byte-code(" !  GZZjc !" [select-window minibuffer-window erase-buffer screen-width display-time-string 1 message buffer-string] 2)
  display-time-function()
  #<compiled-function (from "time.elc") nil "...(44)" [get-itimer "display-time" old delete-itimer display-time-echo-area global-mode-string ("") display-time-string append (display-time-string) display-time-function start-itimer display-time-interval] 6 ("/net/hg74/kooper/xemacs-20/lib/xemacs-20.1-b5/lisp/packages/time.elc" . 1765) nil>()
  call-interactively(display-time)
  command-execute(display-time t)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

Rob
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Rob Kooper
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