Bug#450786: emacs22-common: (safehist-mode 1) does not work

[Jens Thiele]

Package: emacs22-common
Version: 22.1+1-2+lenny1
Severity: normal

According to savehist.el it should:

;; To use savehist, turn on savehist-mode by putting the following in
;; `~/.emacs':
;;
;;     (savehist-mode 1)
;;

But I get the error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#")
  signal(invalid-read-syntax ("#"))
  byte-code("Âà ˆÄ     @       A\"‡" [savehist-mode errvar nil 
savehist-uninstall signal] 3)
  savehist-mode(1)
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/jens/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at 
buffer position 38
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/jens/.emacs" "/home/jens/.emacs" t t)
  load("~/.emacs" t t)
  #[nil "…¾   Æ=ƒÇÈQ‚A    É=ƒ3ÊÇËÌ#ƒ#͂AÊÇËÎ#ƒ/ςA͂A       
Ð=ƒ=тAÇÒQÓÔ\nӉ#ˆÓ=ƒiÕÖ×ÇØQ!\"Ô\fӉ#ˆÓ=ƒh\n)ƒ®Ù!ښƒ®Û!‰ÜP$Ý$!ƒŠ$‚•Ý
!ƒ”
‚•Ë‰ƒ­Þ
\"ƒ«ßà
#ˆáâ!ˆ
*%?…½Ë&ÔãӉ#))‡" [init-file-user system-type user-init-file-1 
user-init-file otherfile source ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt directory-files 
nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/.emacs" "^_emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/_emacs" 
vax-vms "sys$login:.emacs" "/.emacs" t load expand-file-name "init" 
file-name-as-directory "/.emacs.d" file-name-extension "elc" 
file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message 
"Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default" alt inhibit-default-init 
inhibit-startup-message] 7]()
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-mcore2-imq-raid (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages emacs22-common depends on:
ii  dpkg                          1.14.7     package maintenance system for Deb
ii  emacsen-common                1.4.17     Common facilities for all emacsen

emacs22-common recommends no packages.

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