From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>
Cc: 14356@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14356: 24.3; Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 03:41:46 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li7rad6t.fsf@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mws7y9tz.fsf@gmail.com> (Vitalie Spinu's message of "Tue, 07 May 2013 01:20:24 +0200")
Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> writes:
> I have noticed this issue for second time this week.
>
> When trying to access emacs help (C-h f) I am getting the error:
>
> help-setup-xref: Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following
>
> I tracked it down to the warnign in *messages*
>
> Warning: defvar ignored because help-xref-following is let-bound
>
>
> so the variable help-xref-following in help-mode.el is not getting
> defined during the auto-load for the above reason.
>
> Any ideas of how to debug this issue? It is not reproducible, it just
> happens from time to time.
Looks like a problem with a third-party package. Someone let-binds
`help-xref-following' somewhere.
Here's an old commit in auto-complete fixing that:
https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete/commit/75482c79c5d1a46f9097cc27b568aa66ef0add07
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-06 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-06 23:20 bug#14356: 24.3; Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following Vitalie Spinu
2013-05-06 23:41 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2013-05-06 23:57 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-07 6:41 ` Glenn Morris
2013-05-07 6:59 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-07 0:28 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-05-07 6:40 ` Glenn Morris
2013-05-07 9:32 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-05-07 10:27 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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