GNU bug report logs - #17007
24.3.50; describe-key/function evaluates documentation function in the wrong buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: joaotavora <at> gmail.com (João Távora)

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 17007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17007: 24.3.50; describe-key/function evaluates documentation
 function in the wrong	buffer
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 11:01:39 +0100

> It's simpler if I give you an emacs -Q recipe, right? In your *scratch*
> buffer:
>
>     (defun foo ())
>     (defun foo-doc ()
>       (format "Foo does nothing, and by the way your tab does `%s'"
>             	     (key-binding "\t")))
>     (put 'foo 'function-documentation '(foo-doc))
>     (describe-function 'foo)
>
> This fails on the latest Emacs, i.e. the last line returned by the last
> form is
>
>     "Foo does nothing, and by the way your tab does `forward-button'"
>
> Whereas it should report, as in Emacs 24.3
>
>     "Foo does nothing, and by the way your tab does `indent-for-tab-command'"

Should work now as intended.  Please try again.

Thanks, martin
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