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

[T.V Raman]

OK, that's great, I'll wait for that patch to land and wont load the
system with a bug report:-)
Happy New Year all!

Tassilo Horn writes:
 > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
 > 
 > Hi Eli,
 > 
 > >> FWIW, the problematic entry doesn't seem to come from some external
 > >> package, at least I can reproduce the error using
 > >> 
 > >>   1. emacs -Q
 > >>   2. M-x fundamental-mode RET in *stratch*
 > >>   3. C-h S
 > >> 
 > >> with GNU Emacs 29.0.50 of 2022-01-03.  The step 2 above is needed
 > >> because `C-h S' in an emacs-lisp-mode or lisp-interaction-mode buffer
 > >> works just fine whereas I get the error in fundamental-mode or
 > >> Info-mode.  I can't reproduce with emacs 27 or 28.
 > >
 > > Does the patch below give good results?
 > 
 > Yes, it does, thanks!
 > 
 > Bye,
 > Tassilo
 > 
 > > diff --git a/lisp/info-look.el b/lisp/info-look.el
 > > index e6f267d..9224aa3 100644
 > > --- a/lisp/info-look.el
 > > +++ b/lisp/info-look.el
 > > @@ -347,7 +347,10 @@ info-lookup-select-mode
 > >  
 > >  (defun info-lookup-change-mode (topic)
 > >    (let* ((completions (mapcar (lambda (arg)
 > > -                          (cons (symbol-name (car arg)) (car arg)))
 > > +                                (let ((mode-spec (car arg)))
 > > +                                  (and (consp mode-spec)
 > > +                                       (setq mode-spec (car mode-spec)))
 > > +                            (cons (symbol-name mode-spec) mode-spec)))
 > >                          (info-lookup->topic-value topic)))
 > >     (mode (completing-read
 > >            (format "Use %s help mode: " topic)

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Thanks,

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮