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

[T.V Raman]

Daniel Mart??n <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

tried that already -- leads down various twisty ratholes since too many
things in emacs core itself touch that variable, and some of that code
was beyond my abilities, eg see the code in tramp-integration.el

-- that one appears to be an earlier offendor with respect to adding an
invalid entry.
> "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.
>

-- 

Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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