Re: Back again: [Arg list not available....

[John Paul Wallington]

> I regenerated loaddefs.el completely and noticed that something is
> incorrect with the help/fundoc mechanism.  I think this caused by the
> recent change:

I think it is caused by Stefan's subsequent change to
`help-add-fundoc-usage' which doesn't have a ChangeLog entry; it
appears that as a result of that change the function will just return
doc without adding the fundoc usage if arglist is nil.

> 2003-04-12  John Paul Wallington  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * help-fns.el (help-add-fundoc-usage): Pass an empty string to
>       `format' if no newlines are necessary.
> 
> For instance, C-h f batch-update-autoloads yields now the help buffer
> contents
> 
> ==========
> batch-update-autoloads is an autoloaded Lisp function in `autoload'.
> [Arg list not available until function definition is loaded.]
> 
> Update loaddefs.el autoloads in batch mode.
> Calls `update-directory-autoloads' on the command line arguments.
> ==========
> 
> while it should give the help buffer contents
> 
> ==========
> batch-update-autoloads is an autoloaded Lisp function in `autoload'.
> (batch-update-autoloads)
> 
> Update loaddefs.el autoloads in batch mode.
> Calls `update-autoloads-autoloads' on the command line arguments.
> ==========
> 
> I am not sure what is the desired fix:  Either undo that change for
> help-add-fundoc-usage or adjust the function help-function-arglist to
> that change.  (I don't volunteer for any fix.)