GNU bug report logs - #28918
describe-function on broken aliases no longer works

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.0.90

Fixed in version 26.0.91

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: describe-function on broken aliases no longer works
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:55:05 -0400

Package: emacs
Version: 26.0.90

In emacs -Q:

(defalias 'foo 'foo2)
C-h f foo RET


With Emacs 25.3:
  -> foo is an alias for 'foo2', which is not defined.  Please make a bug report.


With Emacs 26.0.90:
  -> Invalid function: nil

By experiment, this is due to 2d99269.
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 211 days ago.

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