From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 7127@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:58:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <thtyl96kx0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19618.59394.954066.964412@parhasard.net> (Aidan Kehoe's message of "Wed\, 29 Sep 2010 08\:17\:22 +0100")
This may be Cygwin-specific?
Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> (symbol-function 'help-for-help-internal) (h-f-h-i being what help
> eventually resolves to) gives me a compiled function with a nil
> documentation slot; help.elc has (defalias 'help-for-help-internal
> ...) with a compiled function and what seems to be the correct lazy
> doc reference. The DOC file seems correct, with an entry
> \x1fFhelp-for-help-internal Help command.\x1f
>
> But (documentation #'custom-declare-variable-early) and (documentation
> #'when) both give nil for me, and the same seems to be true for all the
> dumped compiled functions with docstrings. I don’t know why that is, and I
> don’t especially care to debug it right now, but this binary is what Cygwin
> installed, I’m certain I’m not the only one affected.
>
> > > In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.18.6)
> > > of 2010-05-08 on laptop
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 23:03 bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error Aidan Kehoe
2010-09-28 23:27 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 7:17 ` Aidan Kehoe
2010-09-29 7:58 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2010-09-29 13:02 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-29 17:00 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-29 17:07 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 18:58 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-30 0:35 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-30 2:15 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-30 7:12 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-30 17:30 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-01 14:00 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-01 18:33 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-02 1:55 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-02 2:57 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-02 13:57 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-02 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 15:47 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-08 15:14 ` Ken Brown
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