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: Re: Bug in help-fns+.el (was Re: Completion stopped working) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:10:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87haipfmwt.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87vc7m3itw.fsf@gmail.com> <87a9oyeqx8@ch.ristopher.com> <87li81g2tx.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <95667056AB83437DABC4BBC72B55DD4A@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367244633 3198 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2013 14:10:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:10:33 +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 16:10:38 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 1UWomr-0000bh-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:10:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWomq-0006LZ-PK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWoma-0006H2-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWomZ-00051y-Be for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWomZ-00051r-4r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UWomX-0000NG-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:10:17 +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 16:10:17 +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 16:10:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 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:zxmSZDQj227EMEx3/8OjvcaAa/U= 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:90393 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> 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. > > Please report the problem you think you see to me, using a > reproducible recipe from emacs -Q. 1. emacs -Q 2. type ,------------------ | (message "hello") `------------------ in scratch buffer 3. with point on 'message', do 'C-h f' and you'll see: ,------------------------------------- | Describe function (default message): `------------------------------------- 4. Do 'M-x load-file RET /path/to/help-fns+.el' 5. with point on 'message', do 'C-h f' again and you'll see: ,-------------------- | Describe function: `-------------------- PS: GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4) of 2013-03-18 on eric -- cheers, Thorsten