GNU bug report logs - #63881
29.0.91; apropos-documentation fails when load-history contains element whose CAR is nil

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 03:08:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.91

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 63881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Matt Beshara <m <at> mfa.pw>
Cc: 63881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63881: 29.0.91; apropos-documentation fails when
 load-history contains element whose CAR is nil
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:50:27 +1000

I’ve encountered this same bug too.  The real-life use case where 
I’ve run into it has been when attempting to use 
‘apropos-documentation’ after doing ‘eval-buffer’ in an EWW buffer 
containing only Elisp code, usually from e.g. GitHub.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> How did you add such an entry to load-history?  IOW, is there a
> real-life use case where this happens?
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