Re: info-lookup-alist mangled, breaks C-h S

[Daniel Martín]

"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

> This appears to happen when packages from elpa get loaded best I can
> tell, but it's proven difficult/impossible to track down.
>
> Running C-h S  info-lookup-symbol
> throws an error about an invalid symbol that appears to come from an
> entry of the form
> (emacs-lisp-mode . "woman") that appears inside info-lookup-alist --
> but it's impossible to track down who/what is putting that entry in
> there.

You could try M-x debug-on-variable-change RET info-lookup-alist RET,
and then load your ELPA packages to debug which one is changing that
variable in an incorrect way.