GNU bug report logs - #58786
29.0.50; Error with Info-minibuf-history not declared

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 03:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #34 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 58786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : bug#58786: 29.0.50; Error with Info-minibuf-history
 not declared
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:21:07 -0700

close 58786 29.1
thanks

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net> writes:

> 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.

I've now declared it (commit 68548af68a), and I'm closing this bug.
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 209 days ago.

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