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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#14356: 24.3; Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following |
Date: | Tue, 07 May 2013 03:41:46 +0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) |
Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> writes: > I have noticed this issue for second time this week. > > When trying to access emacs help (C-h f) I am getting the error: > > help-setup-xref: Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following > > I tracked it down to the warnign in *messages* > > Warning: defvar ignored because help-xref-following is let-bound > > > so the variable help-xref-following in help-mode.el is not getting > defined during the auto-load for the above reason. > > Any ideas of how to debug this issue? It is not reproducible, it just > happens from time to time. Looks like a problem with a third-party package. Someone let-binds `help-xref-following' somewhere. Here's an old commit in auto-complete fixing that: https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete/commit/75482c79c5d1a46f9097cc27b568aa66ef0add07
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