Hello Recipe to reproduce the bug: 1) emacs -Q 2) M-x run-octave 3) Type something that doesn't involve a octave function call, like the following matrix. Type it slowly, to give octave-eldoc-function time to run: A = [10 1;2 3] (Of course, if you don't want to type slowly, set eldoc-idle-delay to 0). 4) When point is past a whitespace, such as in: A |= (with | being where point is) the echo area displays: 'A' not found Similar situation when point is at: A = [10 |1;2 3] Echo area here displays: '10' not found. So, for every symbol that is not a function, 'not found' might be displayed. I think it is a bug, since as a a user I would expect that if I'm not about to call a function, ElDoc shouldn't be displaying anything. Best regards, Mauro. In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2019-06-30 built on the-blackbeard Repository revision: fd9ea1e511ba3b1f5d338c3fc8faf0b85df951f9 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000 System Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. delete-backward-char: Text is read-only [2 times] Quit You can run the command ‘run-octave’ with M-x ru-o RET Configured using: 'configure CFLAGS=-O3' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM THREADS PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils thingatpt compile octave smie easymenu comint ansi-color ring time-date elec-pair mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 53509 7386) (symbols 24 6753 1) (strings 16 18539 2692) (string-bytes 1 611047) (vectors 8 11206) (vector-slots 4 137069 15278) (floats 8 17 36) (intervals 28 230 0) (buffers 564 12) (heap 1024 7670 759))