This is a bug that happens when trying to navigate between two *Help* buffers. ==Reproduction instructions== emacs -Q Evaluate this code: (global-set-key (kbd "C-c l") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "This messes up the help buffer somehow."))) Then open up a help buffer for that function: C-h k C-c l And a help buffer for something else: C-h k a Then, in the help buffer, go to the bottom, and try to select the "[back]" link. I get an error: "user-error: You didn’t specify a function symbol". If I try again, I get a different error: "apply: Symbol’s function definition is void: nil". These errors happen whether I've select the link with pressing Enter on the keyboard or by clicking the mouse. ==End of instructions== In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2016-07-10 built on zck-laptop Repository revision: 466ee1b3ea76425d201b5d59950e88251870c836 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000 System Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Recent messages: Mark set (lambda nil (interactive) (insert "This messes up the help buffer somehow.")) Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. Mark set user-error: You didn’t specify a function symbol apply: Symbol’s function definition is void: nil scroll-up-command: End of buffer [2 times] apply: Symbol’s function definition is void: nil [3 times] p is undefined Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-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 puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cl-extra help-fns radix-tree help-mode easymenu edmacro kmacro cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date 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 newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow 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 charscript 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 dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 98309 6988) (symbols 48 20970 0) (miscs 40 262 168) (strings 32 18601 4494) (string-bytes 1 595182) (vectors 16 13861) (vector-slots 8 449156 6768) (floats 8 188 43) (intervals 56 248 0) (buffers 976 12) (heap 1024 25332 985))