From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
Cc: "58786@debbugs.gnu.org" <58786@debbugs.gnu.org>,
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#58786: 29.0.50; Error with Info-minibuf-history not declared
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:40:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CO6PR10MB5473EDAA39C72B350AA042B6F3309@CO6PR10MB5473.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmeezf33.fsf@posteo.net>
> > My code includes just a vacuous defvar, to
> > declare the var but not initialize it to nil.
> > (defvar Info-minibuf-history)
>
> You should not have to do this, this defvar should be in info.el on top
> of file ideally.
Yes, it should be in info.el.
The commit you noted was based on code I provided.
That's why I mentioned that in my code I do include
a vacuous defvar, to declare the (special) variable.
> Initialized to nil or not I don't know, but it should
> be declared anyway.
> I personally initialize these history vars to nil in all my packages.
>
> > That works, and in all Emacs versions, AFAIK.
>
> AFAIK this variable is not used in previous emacs versions.
But my code (info+.el) uses it, and that library
works in all Emacs releases, starting with 23.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-26 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-26 3:48 bug#58786: 29.0.50; Error with Info-minibuf-history not declared Thierry Volpiatto
2022-10-26 5:36 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-26 6:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-10-26 6:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-26 8:45 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-10-26 9:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-10-26 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2022-10-26 17:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-10-26 18:40 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-10-26 19:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-26 20:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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