GNU bug report logs - #2603
defalias - doc string copied to definition

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:45:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 2603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2603: defalias - doc string copied to definition
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:46:24 +0800

David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It seems that a `defalias' call such as (defalias foo bar) will, in
> certain circumstances, set the doc string of BAR to the one of FOO,
> even though it should only set the doc string of FOO.  It also
> contains "[Missing arglist.  Please make a bug report.]".
>
> This happens in case where FOO is a Lisp function, BAR is a Lisp
> accessor to a function defined in C source, and the defalias occurs in
> a preloaded (?) file in lisp/term.

I've committed a fix.  Thanks for the bug report.
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