tags 273123 patch quit RMS sent me the following patch, it prevents the segfault (by signalling a "buffer is read-only" error). It's against CVS but applies cleanly to the Debian sources.
*** whitespace.el 10 Jun 2005 09:28:20 -0400 1.36 --- whitespace.el 04 Jul 2005 09:37:22 -0400 *************** *** 608,624 **** (defun whitespace-buffer-leading-cleanup () "Remove any empty lines at the top of the file." (save-excursion ! (let ((pmin nil) ! (pmax nil)) ! (goto-char (point-min)) ! (beginning-of-line) ! (setq pmin (point)) ! (end-of-line) ! (setq pmax (point)) ! (if (equal pmin pmax) ! (progn ! (kill-line) ! (whitespace-buffer-leading-cleanup)))))) (defun whitespace-buffer-trailing () "Check to see if are is more than one empty line at the bottom." --- 608,616 ---- (defun whitespace-buffer-leading-cleanup () "Remove any empty lines at the top of the file." (save-excursion ! (goto-char (point-min)) ! (skip-chars-forward "\n") ! (delete-region (point-min) (point)))) (defun whitespace-buffer-trailing () "Check to see if are is more than one empty line at the bottom." *************** *** 647,672 **** (defun whitespace-buffer-trailing-cleanup () "Delete all the empty lines at the bottom." (save-excursion ! (let ((pmin nil) ! (pmax nil)) ! (goto-char (point-max)) ! (beginning-of-line) ! (setq pmin (point)) ! (end-of-line) ! (setq pmax (point)) ! (if (equal pmin pmax) ! (progn ! (goto-char (1- pmin)) ! (beginning-of-line) ! (setq pmin (point)) ! (end-of-line) ! (setq pmax (point)) ! (if (equal pmin pmax) ! (progn ! (goto-char (1- (point-max))) ! (beginning-of-line) ! (kill-line) ! (whitespace-buffer-trailing-cleanup)))))))) (defun whitespace-buffer-search (regexp) "Search for any given whitespace REGEXP." --- 639,649 ---- (defun whitespace-buffer-trailing-cleanup () "Delete all the empty lines at the bottom." (save-excursion ! (goto-char (point-max)) ! (skip-chars-backward "\n") ! (if (not (bolp)) ! (forward-char 1)) ! (delete-region (point) (point-max)))) (defun whitespace-buffer-search (regexp) "Search for any given whitespace REGEXP." -- ,''`. : :' : Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `. `' http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]