GNU bug report logs - #48019
28.0.50; Error signaled by documentation function

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 48019 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48019: 28.0.50; Error signaled by documentation function
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 01:50:17 +0200
Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> Using help commands to get docstrings from the etc/DOC file
> raises an error, e.g. on typing 'C-h m':
>
>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp t)
>     documentation(auto-composition-mode)
>     describe-mode()
>     funcall-interactively(describe-mode)
>     call-interactively(describe-mode nil nil)
>     command-execute(describe-mode)
>
> This is a recent regression.

I saw similar problems just now (not with `C-h m', but eldoc calling
`documentation' with parameters that made it bug out).  I did a "make
bootstrap", and I'm no longer seeing those problems.

If you do the same, does the problem go away for you, too?

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