From unknown Mon Jun 23 04:13:18 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#12700: 24.1; ehelp buffers inconsistent Resent-From: Uday S Reddy Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:27:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 12700 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 12700@debbugs.gnu.org Cc: Uday S Reddy X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.13509015813677 (code B ref -1); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:27:02 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Oct 2012 10:26:21 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55085 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQFDA-0000xF-L5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:26:21 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53417) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQFD7-0000wv-G4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:26:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQFBE-0006uY-JC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:24:26 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]:60426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQFBE-0006uO-Fw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:24:20 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQFB8-00018i-1h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:24:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQFB1-0006t1-HT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:24:13 -0400 Received: from sun60.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.137]:53458) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQFB1-0006sl-8t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:24:07 -0400 Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun60.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQFAz-0004xH-Nh; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:24:05 +0100 Received: from mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.192.53]) by bham.ac.uk (envelope-from ) with esmtp (Exim 4.72) id 1TQFAz-00037p-Df using interface smart1.bham.ac.uk; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:24:05 +0100 Received: from gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.193.16] helo=MARUTI.cs.bham.ac.uk) by mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1TQFAz-0007HW-20; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:24:05 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20613.7861.38000.899243@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:23:49 +0100 From: Uday S Reddy X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.17 X-Spam-Score: -6.9 (------) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -6.9 (------) Run 'emacs -Q' and then execute (require 'ehelp) (define-key global-map "\C-h" 'ehelp-command) Then get help on something, say C-h v enable-multibyte-characters. If you click on any of the hyperlinks on the resulting help page, Emacs24 says that the buffer is not in help-mode. Error: Current buffer is not in Help mode However, the buffer is in help-mode. Doing C-h m shows this: Enabled minor modes: Auto-Composition Auto-Compression Auto-Encryption Blink-Cursor File-Name-Shadow Font-Lock Global-Font-Lock Line-Number Menu-Bar Mouse-Wheel Savehist Show-Paren Transient-Mark Which-Function (Information about these minor modes follows the major mode info.) Help mode defined in `help-mode.el': Major mode for viewing help text and navigating references in it. Entry to this mode runs the normal hook `help-mode-hook'. Commands: key binding --- ------- C-c Prefix Command TAB forward-button RET help-follow ESC Prefix Command SPC scroll-up-command - negative-argument 0 .. 9 digit-argument < beginning-of-buffer > end-of-buffer ? describe-mode g revert-buffer h describe-mode q quit-window z kill-this-buffer DEL scroll-down-command backward-button help-follow-mouse Prefix Command C-c C-b help-go-back C-c C-c help-follow-symbol C-c C-f help-go-forward M-TAB backward-button Cheers, Uday -------------- In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-06-10 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Help Minor modes in effect: savehist-mode: t show-paren-mode: t which-function-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x C-f C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-h v e n a b l e - m u t SPC SPC l SPC SPC r C-h m M-x n e w - f r a SPC C-g M-x r e p o r t - e m a SPC SPC Recent messages: udrimap: 3508 messages, 0 new, 558 unread, 1 deleted Describe-Variable... Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. Error: Current buffer is not in Help mode Describe-Mode... udrimap: 1 message to stuff udrimap: Stuffing 100% complete... Quit scroll-down-command: Beginning of buffer [11 times] Load-path shadows: d:/Home/udr/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.86/tex-site hides d:/gnu/emacs-24.1/../site-lisp/tex-site d:/Home/udr/share/emacs/sml-mode hides d:/gnu/emacs-24.1/../site-lisp/sml-mode d:/Home/udr/share/emacs/savehist-20+ hides d:/gnu/emacs-24.1/../site-lisp/savehist-20+ d:/gnu/emacs-24.1/../site-lisp/longlines hides d:/gnu/emacs-24.1/lisp/longlines d:/gnu/emacs-24.1/../site-lisp/electric hides d:/gnu/emacs-24.1/lisp/electric Features: (shadow mailalias emacsbug message format-spec mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode gmm-utils mailheader pp help-mode view vm-delete utf-7 network-stream starttls tls bbdb-hooks mail-parse rfc2231 vm-save tapestry vm-sort u-vm-color my-vm vc-bzr etags vm-ps-print vm-rfaddons vm-undo vm-page vm-message vm-macro bbdb-vm vm-autoload bbdb-snarf mail-extr rfc822 bbdb-com mailabbrev vm haskell-doc haskell-indentation haskell-font-lock haskell-mode outline-magic noutline outline auctex-autoloads info easymenu yasnippet-autoloads package tabulated-list w3m-load bbdb-autoloads bbdb vm-reply vm-virtual vm-summary-faces vm-pop utf7 vm-imap vm-thread vm-mime vm-motion vm-mouse vm-toolbar vm-menu vm-window vm-crypto vm-summary vm-folder vm-minibuf vm-misc timezone vm-pcrisis vm-autoloads vm-version vm-vars myautopair autopair warnings savehist ange-ftp comint ansi-color ring session tex-site auto-loads movement natural-space NatSpeak sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mail-utils auth-source eieio byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv macroexp assoc gnus-util mm-util mail-prsvr password-cache epa-file epa epg epg-config regexp-opt paren echistory chistory ehelp electric easy-mmode cl derived which-func imenu advice help-fns advice-preload edmacro kmacro time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs) From unknown Mon Jun 23 04:13:18 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#12700: 24.1; ehelp buffers inconsistent Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12700 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Uday S Reddy Cc: 12700@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 12700-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12700.1350913513989 (code B ref 12700); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:46:02 +0000 Received: (at 12700) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Oct 2012 13:45:13 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55487 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQIJd-0000Ft-EE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:45:13 -0400 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:43994) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQIJc-0000Fc-36 for 12700@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:45:12 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09FpYC//2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiBwFugmQRAOjM4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="202456422" Received: from 69-165-128-191.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.128.191]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 22 Oct 2012 09:43:20 -0400 Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8ECCA59347; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:43:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Stefan Monnier Message-ID: References: <20613.7861.38000.899243@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:43:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20613.7861.38000.899243@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:23:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 0.8 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: 0.8 (/) > Run 'emacs -Q' and then execute > (require 'ehelp) > (define-key global-map "\C-h" 'ehelp-command) > Then get help on something, say C-h v enable-multibyte-characters. > If you click on any of the hyperlinks on the resulting help page, Emacs24 > says that the buffer is not in help-mode. > Error: Current buffer is not in Help mode Hmm... I can't reproduce it here, neither with trunk/src/emacs nor with Debian's emacs24 (which is based on 24.1). Could you show us a Lisp backtrace? Stefan From unknown Mon Jun 23 04:13:18 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#12700: 24.1; ehelp buffers inconsistent Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:09:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12700 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Uday S Reddy Cc: 12700@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 12700-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12700.135092208420415 (code B ref 12700); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:09:02 +0000 Received: (at 12700) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Oct 2012 16:08:04 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56091 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQKXr-0005JE-Nb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:08:03 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:43985 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQKXp-0005Im-Q4 for 12700@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:08:02 -0400 Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQKW4-0005gi-Lk; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:06:12 -0400 From: Glenn Morris References: <20613.7861.38000.899243@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Spook: Albania UMTS constitution DES Adriatic Verisign import X-Ran: LN#|^d%y5UBqd_"H)3@h5%YwqXD@gW-7wAY6V):~O@${`ST#5cM]64g[k,\Z\+x]P{=!A# X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:06:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20613.7861.38000.899243@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:23:49 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Uday S Reddy wrote: > Run 'emacs -Q' and then execute > > (require 'ehelp) > (define-key global-map "\C-h" 'ehelp-command) > > Then get help on something, say C-h v enable-multibyte-characters. > > If you click on any of the hyperlinks on the resulting help page, Emacs24 > says that the buffer is not in help-mode. > > Error: Current buffer is not in Help mode This is http://debbugs.gnu.org/10917, already fixed. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Oct 22 12:08:50 2012 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Oct 2012 16:08:50 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56094 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQKYc-0005Kq-2w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:08:50 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:43994 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TQKYa-0005Kj-41 for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:08:48 -0400 Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQKWq-0005k6-LY for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:07:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:07:00 -0400 Message-Id: Subject: control message for bug 12700 To: X-Mailer: mail (GNU Mailutils 2.1) From: Glenn Morris X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) forcemerge 10917 12700 From unknown Mon Jun 23 04:13:18 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#12700: 24.1; ehelp buffers inconsistent Resent-From: Uday Reddy Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12700 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Glenn Morris Cc: 12700@debbugs.gnu.org, Uday S Reddy Received: via spool by 12700-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12700.135115966826519 (code B ref 12700); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:08:01 +0000 Received: (at 12700) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Oct 2012 10:07:48 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60724 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TRKLr-0006tg-Oy for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:07:48 -0400 Received: from sun60.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.137]:41260) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TRKLq-0006tZ-Cy for 12700@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:07:47 -0400 Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun60.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TRKJp-0005zc-PM; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:05:41 +0100 Received: from mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.192.53]) by bham.ac.uk (envelope-from ) with esmtp (Exim 4.72) id 1TRKJp-0004Pm-FO using interface smart1.bham.ac.uk; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:05:41 +0100 Received: from gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.193.16] helo=MARUTI.cs.bham.ac.uk) by mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1TRKJp-0002Du-Ln; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:05:41 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20617.3811.772000.211170@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:05:23 +0100 From: Uday Reddy In-Reply-To: References: <20613.7861.38000.899243@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) Glenn Morris writes: > This is http://debbugs.gnu.org/10917, already fixed. Thanks Glenn. You guys are amazing! Cheers, Uday