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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
> 2. Someone changed `describe-function' so that it now barfs
>    if its arg is not a function symbol.

Yes, seems to have been 82d0f42a "* lisp/help-fns.el
(describe-function): More type checking[...]".  I think it was an
accident: the non-interactive case wasn't considered, probably because
the docstring doesn't mention it.

Here's a patch that moves the checks into the interactive form and
updates the docstring: