From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17490: 24.3.91; describe-function on some eieio class give (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 22:58:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87r43w3wn3.fsf@engster.org> References: <877g5ok8na.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400101169 7494 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2014 20:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17490-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Nicolas Richard Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 22:59:20 2014 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 1WkgGl-0004AO-VQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 22:59:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkgGl-0005Eo-Mm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 16:59:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54253) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkgGc-0005AP-Cw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 16:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkgGV-0003mq-93 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 16:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkgGU-0003mb-R2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 16:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WkgGU-0005iR-As for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 16:59:02 -0400 Resent-From: David Engster Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:59:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 17490 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 17490@debbugs.gnu.org, deng@randomsample.de, theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr Original-Received: via spool by 17490-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D17490.140010113121944 (code D ref 17490); Wed, 14 May 2014 20:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17490-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 May 2014 20:58:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34911 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WkgGI-0005hn-FD for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 16:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:54279) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WkgGG-0005he-1S for 17490-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 16:58:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=XVQiL+phOpNmoSxVICOSwL+JNbGaTBgNmmvIIE43dTk=; b=eABAVVUYo7r5Jg2e4gABVlSyfMFIT6Es9bcR9c1ICLb87Ppb3Da5W0MSBlZPoDzY0G/ZkhKauGw4xOeoiBZ8uVzhcl3IRxtE2chdBkm+mdjT7AS1+/xOr6epIgGeCeNC; Original-Received: from dslc-082-082-162-074.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.82.162.74] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WkgGE-0004T9-CR; Wed, 14 May 2014 22:58:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <877g5ok8na.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 11:32:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.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:89109 Archived-At: Nicolas Richard writes: > Eval the following snippet (taken from (info "(eieio) Quick Start"), > except that I removed the docstring in the method): [...] > FWIW I did this to fix it : > --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-opt.el > +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-opt.el [...] > - (cdr cur))) > + (or (cdr cur) " Undocumented"))) Thanks for the report and the fix, which I just pushed to the emacs-24 branch, albeit with a small change: Instead of printing "Undocumented", it simply prints nothing, since the other EIEIO help functions don't explicitly denote a lack of documentation either. That might be a mistake though, since describe-function/variable do that. I guess this should be changed, but that would belong to trunk. -David