From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#856: 23.0.60; apropos-command and broken fun aliases Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:15:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1220303728.447523.3814@green> Reply-To: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 856@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220304473 19160 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2008 21:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:27:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 01 23:28:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KaGx4-0007bZ-Tc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:28:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56275 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaGw5-0005Rs-Rg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:18:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:48383) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KaGn2-00066k-5n for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280B2ED9ED24 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:17:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [88.67.141.138] (helo=green) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1KaGlm-0007lU-00 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:17:06 +0200 X-Sender: michael_heerdegen@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19F0O10+4lqtAa0t2D9n6FGzQya3v/xK73ijoCN 2h42br5RHsHHpk3xk+3OkWlOJwKkI/zfo2HISDI8XwS0EZ3sQS my2KftvGOcMXYqnU8aGQ== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:27:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:19987 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22928 Archived-At: On my system, the following raises an error when evalled with CVS emacs -Q: (apropos-command (quote ("vc")) 1) Backtrace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function vc-previous-version) documentation(vc-previous-version t) apropos-command(("vc") 1) call-interactively(apropos-command nil nil) There are actually two problems related to this bug: (1) In vc-hooks.el, there is a definition (define-obsolete-function-alias 'vc-previous-version 'vc-previous-revision "23.1"), but the function `vc-previous-revision' is not defined. (2) `apropos-command' should handle errors caused by broken function aliases. Else, cases like (1) make `apropos-command' partly unusable. In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-08-29 on green Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000