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`find-func.el': interactive-form of `find-library' fails

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Subject: bug#563 closed by Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> (Re: bug#563: 
 `find-func.el': interactive-form of `find-library' fails)

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 563-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#563: `find-func.el': interactive-form of `find-library' fails
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:08:37 -0400

Fix sync'd from trunk to 22, bug closed.

2008-08-13  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

            * emacs-lisp/find-func.el (find-library): Wrap search for
            library name in condition-case to avoid reporting a scan-error.
            (Bug#563)  (sync from trunk 2008-01-25)

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From: "Richard Copley" <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: `find-func.el': interactive-form of `find-library' fails
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:46:55 +0100

To reproduce,
   Visit a library file containing a `require' form, e.g.,
   "M-x find-library RET yow RET". Search for a `require' form and
   position point on its the opening left parenthesis.  Invoke
   `find-library' interactively with "M-x find-library RET".

Symptom
   Instead of prompting for a library name, Emacs displays the error message
   `Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 1222, 1'.

Problem
   The error is in the interactive form of `find-library' in `find-func.el'.
   If point is over the opening left-paren of the `require' form then
   `function-called-at-point' returns `require', whereupon `backward-up-list'
   fails because point is not in a list.

Suggestions (for what they're worth :)
   (a) Handle this special case in the `find-library' interactive form.
   (b) Modify `function-called-at-point' to do what its docstring says.
   (c) In the `find-function' interactive form, use `condtition-case'
       to detect errors in computing the default.



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