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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Byte-compilation warning in eldoc.el
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 05:36:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-8pgVNuNL=JG7WeawuxqoMqG81cGioFet9J0c4CvB=6KQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kqfg7ju.fsf@gmail.com>

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 03:20, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
>     When defining the obsolete variable alias for old
>     eldoc-documentation-function (which now points to the newer
>     eldoc-documentation-strategy), one gets the error "don't know how to
>     make a localized vareiable an alias".  I'm not sure, but I suspect
>     this is because Eldoc is preloaded in Emacs 26.3 and the
>     eldoc-documentation-function variable is already set locally by some
>     Elisp buffer.
>
>     Uninterning the symbol shortly before defining the alias seems to fix
>     it.

makunbound might fit better.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-10  6:53 Byte-compilation warning in eldoc.el Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-10  7:20 ` João Távora
2020-07-10  7:43   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-10  9:36   ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2020-07-10 14:41   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-10 15:05     ` Drew Adams
2020-07-10 15:31     ` João Távora
2020-07-10 21:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-10 21:48         ` João Távora
2020-07-10 22:08           ` Stefan Monnier

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