From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14356: 24.3; Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 03:41:46 +0400 Message-ID: <87li7rad6t.fsf@yandex.ru> References: <87mws7y9tz.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367883801 4815 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2013 23:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 23:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14356@debbugs.gnu.org To: Vitalie Spinu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 07 01:43:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UZV3v-0006jT-H9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 01:43:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZV3v-0005BV-6K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 19:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZV3l-0005AW-Mq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 19:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZV3f-0005bD-Gs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 19:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZV3f-0005b7-Cq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 19:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UZV4c-00014p-8q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 19:44:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Dmitry Gutov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 23:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14356 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14356-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14356.13678837924036 (code B ref 14356); Mon, 06 May 2013 23:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14356) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 May 2013 23:43:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60313 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UZV3o-000132-Bc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 19:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-f47.google.com ([209.85.215.47]:62679) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UZV3l-00012u-OS for 14356@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 19:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id fh20so3841703lab.34 for <14356@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 06 May 2013 16:42:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-antivirus :x-antivirus-status; bh=rVeXxkKExZO0Z48aMBjoM9iPh2WBUtRsV0TXs7tstEU=; b=amzhVsWwns2XxWo9CcLadc6V7g//4L/LIweuWWwQBC8ZOlVa0JFTaU2TD9PpRj4xW9 w/HeamgtVZefx1iE3+gP+wWla4i7ukM5scUAc+qVdO+VFu2CNsHD07RATKwS+euZfvou qLA+3HaM5I6gvECDTniCCD420mGklMzBp8EGuE5zEq8CiBMf88v408J3ulwP/xekCZjt k77Lza4FUFoMzWNfDDw3EQz9ifLjvcBx1mRa/zZ0FwcQKRrNI9YqiJUYZN32nNl5JaaO eBKiRBBea606cJ+BERk7LBOc0BrqS6jAFFK0I/e4VlnwU70Ps/3Ftbp9XKJlkGUWnX38 AkNg== X-Received: by 10.112.209.106 with SMTP id ml10mr12346lbc.125.1367883729082; Mon, 06 May 2013 16:42:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from SOL ([178.252.98.87]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z10sm7702281lbv.14.2013.05.06.16.42.06 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 06 May 2013 16:42:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87mws7y9tz.fsf@gmail.com> (Vitalie Spinu's message of "Tue, 07 May 2013 01:20:24 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130506-1, 07.05.2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:74028 Archived-At: Vitalie Spinu 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