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bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:27:15 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 1) emacs -Q
> 2) M-x help RET
> 3) Observe error giving following backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
I cannot reproduce this.
> The issue seems to be make-help-screen in help-macro.el, which assumes
> that (documentation FNAME) gives non-nil, something not true for
> #'help.
(documentation #'help)
returns "Help command." for me in Emacs 23.2.
> In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.18.6)
> of 2010-05-08 on laptop
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Aidan Kehoe, 2010/09/28
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error,
Glenn Morris <=
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Aidan Kehoe, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/29
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/30
- bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error, Ken Brown, 2010/09/30