GNU bug report logs - #17966
select-safe-coding-system-interactively expects with-output-to-temp-buffer to set up help-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 17:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 16038, 17109

Found in versions 24.3, 24.4.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 17966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17966 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#17966: 24.4.50; Error while saving bookmarks: Unknown button
 type `help-xref'
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:46:45 -0700 (PDT)
> >> Perhaps it depends on pre-existing contents of the bookmarks file;
> >> mine is empty.
> >
> > I've just verified that the problem persists even if I rename
> > "~/.emacs.d" to something else before running Emacs.
> 
> Perhaps the key difference between your environment and mine is that I
> have makeinfo version 5.2, which produces the special (non-ascii)
> quotation chars ‘ and ’, and you may have an older version which
> produces ` and ' instead.
> 
> Can you reproduce the problem with the following recipe?
> 
> emacs -Q
> (set-language-environment 'latin-1)
> Visit the attached file.
> C-u 9 C-n
> C-x r m RET
> M-x bookmark-save RET

Sounds similar to what was reported in bug #17568, which I'm
guessing has to do with existing code expecting a buffer to be in
`help-mode' after `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.  IOW, perhaps
more collateral damage from bug #17109.  Just a hunch.




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