bug#77510: 31.0.50; help-customize fails with multiply defined symbols

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:02:22 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:20:13 +0200
>> From:  Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:16:45 +0200 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > 0. emacs -Q
>> > 1. Type `C-h o fringe-mode RET' to pop up a *Help* buffer displaying
>> >    help for both the function fringe-mode and the variable fringe-mode.
>> > 2. In the *Help* buffer type `c'.
>> > => Emacs dings and displays the message "No variable or face to customize"
>> >
>> > When executing this recipe in emacs-30, after step 2 Emacs switches to a
>> > *Customize* buffer for the variable fringe-mode, which is the expected
>> > behavior after typing `c' (help-customize) in *Help*.  This is broken in
>> > master.  The breakage is due to this commit:
>> >
>> > commit e776df2a3eae0454ea85287e15ebba649bf8e918
>> > Author:     Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
[...]
>> Is there any objection to installing this patch to fix the regression?
>
> Thanks for the ping, but it's too early for you to assume this fell
> through the cracks, as today is just 1 week since your OP.  Some
> people take more than that to respond.

Sure, no sweat.

> I added Dmitry to the discussion (it is generally a good idea to do
> that in the OP, by means of the X-Debbugs-Cc header).

Thanks.

Steve Berman