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29.0.50; package-install: slime, loaddefs-generate: Search failed: " "

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Message #11 received at 58280 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 58280 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Subject: Re: bug#58280: 29.0.50; package-install: slime, loaddefs-generate:
 Search failed: " "
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:05:08 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The problem here is that the `slime' package already comes with a file
> "slime-autoloads.el", which means that the attempt to auto-generate a
> new one fails:
>
>     https://github.com/slime/slime/blob/master/slime-autoloads.el
>
> Here's the backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (search-failed "\f\n")
>   search-backward("\f\n")

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.

(But perhaps the slime package should also be fixed to not include a
"hand-made" loaddefs file...)

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