Re: [Geiser-users] Manual not showing up while trying to look up symbol with `racket/base'

[Diogo F. S. Ramos]

address@hidden (Diogo F. S. Ramos) writes:

> "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Anyway, i've pushed a fix consisting in ensuring that help is
>> initialized (in a separate thread, and in the racket namespace) during
>> the startup, which adds the bonus that the first time one asks for help
>> there's no delay building the index.  This is just a workaround (my
>> feeling is that there's a deeper bug either in Geiser or in help), but
>> seems to work for me in Racket 5.3.3.4...
>
> I think I'm experiencing a bug with the new patch.
>
> If I enter a file directly with C-c C-a, instead of starting a new REPL
> first with C-c C-z, it seems that no symbol can be found.
>
> 1. Find a file with `#lang racket/base' or `#lang racket'
> 2. Without any REPL running, enter it with C-c C-a, causing a new REPL
> to be run
> 3. Try to find a symbol with C-c C-d C-i
>
> Example of file:
>
> #lang racket
>
> (list 42)

It's not just running C-c C-a instead of C-c C-z first.

It seems that I can't find symbols if I'm inside a file module.

So running C-c C-z and then C-c C-a to enter a module does reproduce
this bug.