From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: "7127@debbugs.gnu.org" <7127@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:02:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA338F1.1080402@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <thtyl96kx0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 9/29/2010 3:58 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
> This may be Cygwin-specific?
>
> Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
>> (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
>> \x1fFhelp-for-help-internal Help command.\x1f
>>
>> 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
I can reproduce the problem on my (Cygwin) system. The bug occurs in
Emacs 23.2 as well as a build from the current emacs-23 branch. But the
bug is gone in a build from the trunk. I wonder if the patch in
bug#6715 is what fixed it. At a glance, I don't see anything else
Cygwin-specific that might be relevant. When I get a chance, I'll see
if back-porting that patch to emacs-23 fixes the problem.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 23:03 bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error Aidan Kehoe
2010-09-28 23:27 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 7:17 ` Aidan Kehoe
2010-09-29 7:58 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 13:02 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2010-09-29 17:00 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-29 17:07 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 18:58 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-30 0:35 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-30 2:15 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-30 7:12 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-30 17:30 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-01 14:00 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-01 18:33 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-02 1:55 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-02 2:57 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-02 13:57 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-02 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 15:47 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-08 15:14 ` Ken Brown
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