From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: solved[]Re: No Help Window from *Packages* - No Package Specified Error Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:21:28 -0900 Message-ID: <5fb8c5aa-b95f-6efd-10ec-807a7d2d5734@akwebsoft.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="36168"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 24 19:22:15 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j6IMw-0009Cx-Ay for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:22:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6IMv-0000Kl-As for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56723) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6IMR-0000KY-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:21:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6IMQ-0000CU-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from gateway30.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.196.18]:48313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6IMQ-0008K7-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:21:42 -0500 Original-Received: from cm13.websitewelcome.com (cm13.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.6]) by gateway30.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF174353 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:21:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from host2075.hostmonster.com ([67.20.113.97]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id 6IMDjakBQRP4z6IMEjzubs; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:21:30 -0600 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tj49.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version :Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=rE4t7sxTH7fyHxLuvb8dt6dJFsUgkHbPZflb7Mbp1MI=; b=Z+wKfhCyPH/D+LaSxi9QJH5mnH 72E37CgqHUKgObXFa68Ej6++KwyJa6MyGcY4mMYmxgxzrWtImUDa9152+l6ORMz+pQqa4UEkLLeSc 94huD3m6rsoXMniLsbI5OBUbs; Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:37594 helo=[192.168.1.6]) by host2075.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j6IMD-001Gxi-Iu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:21:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host2075.hostmonster.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - akwebsoft.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 64.4.232.191 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1j6IMD-001Gxi-Iu X-Source-Sender: tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([192.168.1.6]) [64.4.232.191]:37594 X-Source-Auth: tim@tj49.com X-Email-Count: 1 X-Source-Cap: bW9sZG92YXM7bW9sZG92YXM7aG9zdDIwNzUuaG9zdG1vbnN0ZXIuY29t X-Local-Domain: yes X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 192.185.196.18 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122467 Archived-At: See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39682 and bottom posting on this message On 2/17/20 2:26 PM, Tim Johnson wrote: > GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.30) > > When I run emacs with init.el and then invoke list-packages, the help > window does not show for a package, regardless of mouse click or using > keystroke "?" > > This is not a problem when I start emacs with -q. > > I'm loading a lot of stuff in init.el, so I would welcome any ideas as > to what I have 'require'd or configured. This issue was submitted as a bug. Subsequently the package maintainers and the individual associated by the bug report were initially unable to reproduce the error message of "No Package Specifiied" I received instructions on how to debug the the request. I found that the command describe-package was failing because the original defun of that name was overriden by the the fn-help+ package that was a dependency of the dired+ package. If you were to invoke list-packages and run describe-package against you will see that it is recommended that the package source be recompiled whenever a new version of emacs is installed. Kudos to Drew and Noam... -- Tim tj49.com