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29.0.50; Error with Info-minibuf-history not declared

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "58786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <58786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#58786: 29.0.50; Error with Info-minibuf-history not declared
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:03:09 +0000

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Hello Drew,

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> My code includes just a vacuous defvar, to
> declare the var but not initialize it to nil.
>
>   (defvar Info-minibuf-history)

You should not have to do this, this defvar should be in info.el on top
of file ideally.  Initialized to nil or not I don't know, but it should
be declared anyway.
I personally initialize these history vars to nil in all my packages. 

> That works, and in all Emacs versions, AFAIK.

AFAIK this variable is not used in previous emacs versions.

-- 
Thierry

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