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bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
From: |
Aidan Kehoe |
Subject: |
bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:17:22 +0100 |
Ar an t-ochtú lá is fiche de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Glenn Morris:
> Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
> > 1) emacs -Q
> > 2) M-x help RET
> > 3) Observe error giving following backtrace:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>
> I cannot reproduce this.
>
> > The issue seems to be make-help-screen in help-macro.el, which assumes
> > that (documentation FNAME) gives non-nil, something not true for
> > #'help.
>
> (documentation #'help)
>
> returns "Help command." for me in Emacs 23.2.
Good for you. (symbol-function 'help-for-help-internal) (h-f-h-i being what
help eventually resolves to) gives me a compiled function with a nil
documentation slot; help.elc has (defalias 'help-for-help-internal ...) with
a compiled function and what seems to be the correct lazy doc reference. The
DOC file seems correct, with an entry Fhelp-for-help-internal
Help command.
But (documentation #'custom-declare-variable-early) and (documentation
#'when) both give nil for me, and the same seems to be true for all the
dumped compiled functions with docstrings. I don’t know why that is, and I
don’t especially care to debug it right now, but this binary is what Cygwin
installed, I’m certain I’m not the only one affected.
> > In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.18.6)
> > of 2010-05-08 on laptop
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- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Aidan Kehoe, 2010/09/28
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/28
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error,
Aidan Kehoe <=
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/30
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/30