bug#15661: 24.3.50; calendar.el broken

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

M-x diary-view-entries RET

fails saying:

Symbol's value as variable is void: displayed-month

AFAIU reason is new defvar behavior, which breaks legacy code.

calendar.el has a

(defvar displayed-month)

which doesn't longer intialise to nil.

There must be a lot of things be broken that way.

Please consider reverting that change to defvar.
Maybe signaling lexical scope with a buffer-local variable might do the job and make me happy again? ;)

Cheers,

Andreas

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
  of 2013-08-28 on purzel.sitgens
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11203000
System Description:	openSUSE 12.2 (i586)

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   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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   auto-composition-mode: t
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<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<menu-bar> <options> <menu-set-font> <help-echo> <help-echo>
C-x C-f <M-backspace> <M-backspace> 2 0 1 3 1 0 2 0
<tab> l i a s <tab> <backspace> <backspace> s o <backspace>
p <tab> c a l e <tab> c a l e <tab> <return> M-x e
v a l - b u <tab> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> M-x h s <backspace> <backspace>
s h e l l <return> c d <return> > SPC d i a r y <return>
l a <backspace> s SPC - l a r t <return> C-x b <return>
M-x d i r a <backspace> <backspace> a r y - v i e w
<tab> e n t r <tab> <return> M-x r e p o r t - e m
a c s . <backspace> - b u <tab> <return>

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