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31.0.50; Error with describe-variable for options defined in C sources

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 31.0.50; Error with describe-variable for options defined in C sources
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:36:31 -0300

After emacs -Q:
C-h v cursor-in-non-selected-windows
help--recommend-setopt: Wrong type argument: stringp, 535053

Backtrace is:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp 535053)
  string-match("\\<setopt\\>" 535053)
  help--recommend-setopt(cursor-in-non-selected-windows)
  apply(help--recommend-setopt cursor-in-non-selected-windows)
  help-fns--run-describe-functions((help-fns--var-bufferlocal 
help-fns--var-aliases help-fns--var-alias help-fns--var-watchpoints 
help-fns--var-file-local help-fns--var-ignored-local help-fns--var-risky 
help-fns--var-safe-local help-fns--customize-variable-version 
help-fns--customize-variable help-fns--mention-first-variable-release 
help--recommend-setopt) cursor-in-non-selected-windows)
  #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x4b6c8828ca5ebe5>)()
  help--window-setup("*Help*" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 
-0x4b6c8828ca5ebe5>))
  describe-variable(cursor-in-non-selected-windows)
  funcall-interactively(describe-variable cursor-in-non-selected-windows)
  call-interactively(describe-variable nil nil)
  command-execute(describe-variable)


In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 22, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.33, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2025-03-13 built on tbb-desktop
Repository revision: 1528d315643d864204f327acb4ec19dd8d859de8
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12201001
System Description: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

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TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER X11 XDBE XIM XINERAMA XINPUT2 XPM XRANDR
GTK3 ZLIB

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  value of $LC_NUMERIC: es_AR.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: es_AR.UTF-8
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  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

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Message #8 received at 76994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: 76994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#76994: 31.0.50; Error with describe-variable for options
 defined in C sources
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:46:08 -0300

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

tags 76994 patch
quit


Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com> writes:

> After emacs -Q:
> C-h v cursor-in-non-selected-windows
> help--recommend-setopt: Wrong type argument: stringp, 535053
>

Patch attached.

[0001-Fix-error-when-trying-to-recommend-setopt.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #13 received at 76994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 76994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#76994: 31.0.50;
 Error with describe-variable for options defined in C sources
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:14:04 +0200

> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:46:08 -0300
> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
> 
> Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>  > After emacs -Q:
>  > C-h v cursor-in-non-selected-windows
>  > help--recommend-setopt: Wrong type argument: stringp, 535053
>  >
> 
> Patch attached.

Looks like a no-brainer to me, thanks.

Message #16 received at 76994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 76994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#76994: 31.0.50; Error with describe-variable for options
 defined in C sources
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:21:28 -0300

close 76994
quit


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

>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:46:08 -0300
>> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
>>
>> Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>  > After emacs -Q:
>>  > C-h v cursor-in-non-selected-windows
>>  > help--recommend-setopt: Wrong type argument: stringp, 535053
>>  >
>>
>> Patch attached.
>
> Looks like a no-brainer to me, thanks.

Thanks.  Installed, and closing.

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