From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9227: 24.0.50; Documentation Lookup in python-mode Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:03:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1312337892.2035.4019.camel@azurit.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356120307 15181 80.91.229.3 (21 Dec 2012 20:05:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9227@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jan Moringen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 21 21:05:15 2012 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 1Tm8qI-0003jL-KK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:05:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm8q4-0008V4-QL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:05:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm8pw-0008Un-1H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:04:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm8ps-00009a-1E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:04:51 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm8pr-00009V-UN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm8q6-0005cY-IZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:05:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <1312337892.2035.4019.camel@azurit.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:05:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9227 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9227-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9227.135612024821533 (code B ref 9227); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9227) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Dec 2012 20:04:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54618 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm8pC-0005bC-UE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:04:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:56358) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm8p9-0005b4-Id for 9227@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:04:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm8ot-0001tZ-0A; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:03:47 -0500 X-Spook: Islam Abduganievich Karimov fissionable rs9512c Taiwan X-Ran: 9rF8)3UKOyX=@H2lx:rTP_nVS[6NnF5KrN9aioKvw+LdP;>rLvDOzgfF3n+y^A{.V/_*}# X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.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:68872 Archived-At: Jan Moringen wrote: > `python-describe-symbol' can fail depending on the pager settings > detected by Python's pydoc module. If a pager is detected, the created > help buffer contains pager error messages about the terminal being not > fully functional instead of the desired documentation. > > The problem can be avoided (in a not-threadsafe manner) by modifying > ehelp in etc/emacs2.py as follows: > > def ehelp (name, imports): Neither python-describe-symbol nor etc/emacs2.py exist in Emacs any more from 24.3 onwards. It looks like the replacement is python-eldoc-at-point. This issue might be fixed now, but there is no recipe to reproduce it, so I cannot say. Maybe you could try the latest pretest 24.2.9x from http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ and let us know.