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bug#7827: Please do not give an error in help when it fails
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#7827: Please do not give an error in help when it fails |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 22:53:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> I just got this error when clicking the [back] button in help:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Selecting deleted buffer")
> describe-mode(#<killed buffer>)
> apply(describe-mode #<killed buffer>)
> help-xref-go-back(#<buffer *Help*>)
> apply(help-xref-go-back #<buffer *Help*>)
> help-do-xref(214 help-xref-go-back (#<buffer *Help*>))
> help-button-action(#<marker (moves after insertion) at 1 in *Help*>)
> push-button(214)
> call-interactively(push-button nil nil)
>
> That is very unpractical since it prevents from going further back in
> the help stack. (Currently I am trying to find my test case which was
> some help text 611 chars long, but I do not remember what it was.)
>
> Just put the backtrace in the help buffer instead with a short explanation.
I don't see why an error in the help buffer should be treated
differently than anywhere else: If you have debug-on-error bound, then
you should get a proper backtrace.
So I'm closing this bug report.
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