bug#51939: 27.2; eldoc uses new variable show-paren-context-when-offscreen

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:

> commit
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> 9f505c476eb1a8e85ba26964abf218cab7db0e57
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>
> seems to behave badly in my emacs
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> GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.27,
> cairo version 1.17.4) of 2021-03-26

Hm...  are you using the eldoc.el file from Emacs 29 in Emacs 27.2?  The
version number hasn't been bumped, so it shouldn't have landed in ELPA
yet, I'd have thought.

> the messages are
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> eldoc error: (void-variable show-paren-context-when-offscreen)
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> as i'm editing e-lisp code.
>
> i wonder if this might be a good amendment?
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> @@ -385,7 +385,8 @@ Also store it in `eldoc-last-message' and return that 
> value."
>             ;; The following configuration shows "Matches..." in the
>             ;; echo area when point is after a closing bracket, which
>             ;; conflicts with eldoc.
> -           (and show-paren-context-when-offscreen
> +           (and (boundp 'show-paren-context-when-offscreen)
> +                show-paren-context-when-offscreen

Yup; looks like the right fix to me.  Pushed to Emacs 29 now.

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