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octave-mode bug in octave-help

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From: fulvio ciriaco <oivulf <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: octave-mode bug in octave-help
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:48:48 +0200 (CEST)

Hallo,
octave-help is not flagged interactive, this triggers an
error on hitting C-c C-h and makes octave-help quite useless.
Please add (interactive) to octave-help header.
Thank you for your work
Fulvio Ciriaco

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: fulvio ciriaco <oivulf <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14208: octave-mode bug in octave-help
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:15:32 -0400

fulvio ciriaco wrote:

> octave-help is not flagged interactive, this triggers an
> error on hitting C-c C-h and makes octave-help quite useless.
> Please add (interactive) to octave-help header.

The symbol "octave-help" appears nowhere in Emacs AFAICS.
Please give a complete recipe starting from emacs -Q that shows the
problem. Include the version number of Emacs (M-x report-emacs-bug would
have included this and more).

On closer look, I see it was removed from Emacs 2011-10-24, so probably
you are using some old version.

Message #11 received at 14208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: fulvio ciriaco <oivulf <at> gmail.com>
To: rgm <at> gnu.org
Cc: 14208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14208: octave-mode bug in octave-help
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:46:30 +0200 (CEST)

Hallo,
this is emacs 23.4.1 as from debian wheezy:

GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-09-08 on trouble, modified by Debian

Reproducing?
emacs -Q
alt-x run-octave
C-c C-h
wrong type argument: commandp, octave-help

In lisp/progmodes/octave-mod.el I read:

(defun octave-help ()
  "Get help on Octave symbols from the Octave info files.
Look up symbol in the function, operator and variable indices of the info files."
  (let ((info-lookup-mode 'octave-mode))
    (call-interactively 'info-lookup-symbol)))

and find several references to octave-help within.
Fulvio

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#14208: octave-mode bug in octave-help
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:15:32 -0400

> fulvio ciriaco wrote:
> 
>> octave-help is not flagged interactive, this triggers an
>> error on hitting C-c C-h and makes octave-help quite useless.
>> Please add (interactive) to octave-help header.
> 
> The symbol "octave-help" appears nowhere in Emacs AFAICS.
> Please give a complete recipe starting from emacs -Q that shows the
> problem. Include the version number of Emacs (M-x report-emacs-bug would
> have included this and more).
> 
> On closer look, I see it was removed from Emacs 2011-10-24, so probably
> you are using some old version.

Message #14 received at 14208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: fulvio ciriaco <oivulf <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14208: octave-mode bug in octave-help
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:15:32 -0400

fulvio ciriaco wrote:

> this is emacs 23.4.1 as from debian wheezy:

Time to update! :)
To at least 24.1.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emacs24.html

> GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>  of 2012-09-08 on trouble, modified by Debian

Message #19 received at 14208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: fulvio ciriaco <oivulf <at> gmail.com>
To: rgm <at> gnu.org
Cc: 14208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14208: octave-mode bug in octave-help
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:40:41 +0200 (CEST)

Ah,
transited to emacs-snapshot (24.3.50.1), 
octave help works fine.

Thank you
Fulvio

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#14208: octave-mode bug in octave-help
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:15:32 -0400

> fulvio ciriaco wrote:
> 
>> this is emacs 23.4.1 as from debian wheezy:
> 
> Time to update! :)
> To at least 24.1.
> 
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emacs24.html
> 
>> GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>>  of 2012-09-08 on trouble, modified by Debian

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