Because then we modify el-doc-functions because of the newer version of
eldoc loaded.

But the ignore value of el-doc-function prevents eldoc from working

Hopefully that helps, sorry for the brevity am on phone

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 3:57 PM João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 18:50, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Alex, exactly under what circunstances do you see that "There is no
> >> ElDoc support in this buffer"?  In what buffer, doing what?  I
> >> appreciate that you have investigated the implementation, but I need to
> >> be able to understand -- and potentially reproduce -- the problem
>
> > 7. At this point, eldoc-documentation-function will be #'ignore so eg
>                                                        ^^^^^^^^
> So this is where I'm completely baffled.  You say this ||||||||
>
> But earlier you said, accurately, in fact it was your first sentence, that:
>
> >>>> Emacs 27.1 ships with eldoc that defines
> >>>> eldoc-documentation-function as #'ignore.
>
> So if it was #'ignore and still is #'ignore what exactly is the
> difference that (require 'eldoc) or (require 'eglot) is introducing??
>
> João
>