Wrong number of arguments: called-interactively-p, 1

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~/.emacs

;; http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete/manual.html
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d//ac-dict")
(ac-config-default)

when I load emacs, it complains the error as "Wrong number of arguments: called-interactively-p, 1". In other words, emacs finds error until the line (ac-config-default).

when I check the file .emacs.d/auto-complete.elc, I found the string "called-interactively-p".

Question> I have used the same setting for ubuntu without problems. Now I am switching centos 6.2. Is there a way that I fix this problem?

emacs --debug-init shows the following errors:

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3
emacscentos
You did not paste the error message correctly. - Nicolas Dudebout
If you have the same .emacs with the same version of auto-complete-config, I would guess that you have different versions of Emacs on the two machines. What does M-x emacs-version say on both computers? - Tyler
The key difference is that one runs on ubuntu latest version and the other runs on centos lastest version. The version of emacs is latest one - q0987
Instead of using that auto package, you can try this one on CentOS 6. It works very well for me. - q0987
"The version of emacs is latest one" is not a useful answer to the question "What does M-x emacs-version say on both computers?" - phils

3 Answers

12
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It is worth mentioning that this error may arise if you move your emacs.d directory from one machine to another.

If this is the case, removing the compiled *.elc files should do the trick.

4
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In recent Emacsen, called-interactively-p requires an argument.

Do C-h f ac-quick-help RET, then replace (called-interactively-p) by (called-interactively-p 'any) and recompile/reload. Or send this bug to the package's author.

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[ As I mentioned recently in some other stackoverflow question, it is strongly recommended to not put "~/.emacs.d" in your load-path since the ~/.emacs.d directory can/will hold configuration files whose name clashes with real emacs packages. I.e. put the auto-complete files in a *sub*directory of ~/.emacs.d. ]

Your error looks very strange: while called-interactively-p is declared in Emacs-23 as taking exactly 1 argument, it actually accepts 0 arguments as well (to ease up the pain for external packages that want to support both Emacs-22 and Emacs-23). So seems to be something else in your config which somehow redefines called-interactively-p.