GNU bug report logs - #24773
26.0.50; Error when using Edebug on a function that uses :documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, patch

Found in versions 26.0.50, 25.1

Done: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 24773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>
Cc: 24773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24773: 26.0.50; Error when using Edebug on a function that
 uses :documentation
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 11:35:38 -0400

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com> wrote:
> Edebug gives an error when you try to debug any function which uses
> :documentation to create its docstring.

Is that a legitimate way to create a docstring?

I tried

(defun foo ()
  (:documentation "this is docmentation")
  t)
(foo)

And it didn't work (<f1> f foo RET says foo is not documented, and
running foo, throws Lisp error: (void-function :documentation)).
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