From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
Cc: 7127@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:27:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4i7hi5a1po.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19618.29737.497771.713881@parhasard.net>
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.
> In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.18.6)
> of 2010-05-08 on laptop
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-28 23:27 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 [this message]
2010-09-29 7:17 ` Aidan Kehoe
2010-09-29 7:58 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 13:02 ` Ken Brown
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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