GNU bug report logs - #14356
24.3; Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 23:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Done: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 14356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#14356: 24.3; Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 02:41:05 -0400

Leo Liu wrote:

> Would be nice to know where it is let-bound.

Use grep. AFAICS, nothing distributed with Emacs can cause this.
The only possible candidate in 24.3 is gnus-art, and I think that usage
is fine (see my other message).

> For example, octave.el (in emacs trunk) does this but I cannot
> reproduce this bug with it.

I think you are saved by with-help-window using
with-output-to-temp-buffer, which runs help-mode-setup via
temp-buffer-setup-hook.
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