From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#702: with-help-window returns nil Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:27:58 +0200 Message-ID: <48A1C81E.8050000@gmail.com> References: Reply-To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , 702@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218563263 29398 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2008 17:47:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, John Wiegley To: Glenn Morris , 702@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 12 19:48:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSxyy-000438-V0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:48:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSxy2-0001Mh-Pm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSxxx-0001Io-Sj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSxxv-0001EB-SG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56067 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSxxv-0001Dx-MV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:39204) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSxxv-0000m2-20 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m7CHlOw1000316; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:47:25 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m7CHZ3Wp028512; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:35:03 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:35:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 702 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.121856209826818 (code B ref -1); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 12 Aug 2008 17:28:18 +0000 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m7CHSFGg026811 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:28:16 -0700 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:48821 helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KSxeC-00054O-OM for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSxfH-000666-Rx for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:60117) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSxfD-00065F-Lp; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:64813 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KSxfC-0003J9-3f; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:28:06 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! 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X-CrossAssassin-Score: 2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:47:29 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:19321 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22818 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > Current CVS trunk: > > with-help-window returns nil, rather than the last value of BODY. > This causes, eg, describe-function to return nil, rather than the > description. This breaks, eg, eshell/which: > > emacs -Q -f eshell > eshell> which which > Wrong type argument: stringp, nil I just reported this problem to the maintainer of eshell and suggested to fetch the documentation in another way. It is not documented that describe-function should return the doc string.