From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Bug in help-fns+.el (was Re: Completion stopped working) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:26:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87li81g2tx.fsf_-_@gmail.com> References: <87vc7m3itw.fsf@gmail.com> <87a9oyeqx8@ch.ristopher.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367224008 3142 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2013 08:26:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:26:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 29 10:26:53 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1UWjQC-0006CG-9a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:26:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48657 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWjQB-00024W-Ss for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWjPu-00021j-M8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWjPt-0003EK-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWjPt-0003E8-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UWjPm-0005vq-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:26:26 +0200 Original-Received: from e178063236.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.63.236]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:26:26 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178063236.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:26:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178063236.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4Got9xhchwQyRuf9/BgbKt6F+YM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90391 Archived-At: Christopher Schmidt writes: > Thorsten Jolitz writes: >> "Who" is in charge of showing this default value? > > function-called-at-point > variable-at-point > > If I were you, I'd try to bisect my init.el. Use emacs -q and eval the > forms in your init.el one after another until you hit on your bug. Following your advice, I found out that loading 'help-fns+.el' by Drew Adams redefines 'describe-function' and 'describe-variable', and fails at offering the symbol near point as the default symbol to be described. -- cheers, Thorsten