GNU bug report logs - #28899
26.0.90; describe-function on class contructor gives make-text-button: Unknown button type ‘cl-type-definition’

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:56:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.0.90

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: 28899 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28899: 26.0.90; describe-function on class contructor gives make-text-button: Unknown button type ‘cl-type-definition’
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:38:13 -0500

tags 28899 fixed
close 28899 26.1
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Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> A simple way to fix is to add (require 'cl-extra) in
> eieio-help-constructor.  What's really needed is a way of autoloading
> button definitions.

Actually, ';;;###autoload' on the define button macro works normally,
but not in this case due to bootstrapping circularity.  I just added the
require in emacs-26.

[1: 607cc4e24a]: 2018-01-30 22:14:02 -0500
  Define cl-type-definition button type as needed (Bug#28899)
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=607cc4e24a08cfe4a14db9d1387dfb23ba94044c
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