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RE: Error when calling describe-variable/key/function() in help-fns+.el


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Error when calling describe-variable/key/function() in help-fns+.el
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:30:47 -0700

> I get the following error:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function describe-simplify-lib-
> file-name)
>   describe-simplify-lib-file-name(nil)
>   describe-variable(nil nil nil)
>   call-interactively(describe-variable nil nil)
> 
> when I try to use describe-variable()
> 
> I searched for describe-simplify-lib-file-name in my emacs configs and
> found it in only once in help-fns+.el.
> 
> Then I looked into lisp/Changelog and found the following entry that
> mentions describe-simplify-lib-file-name(). I am using Emacs version
> 23.0.60.1.
> 
> 2008-09-01  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics@gmx.at>
> 
>       * help-fns.el (describe-simplify-lib-file-name)
>       (find-source-lisp-file): Removed.
>       (find-lisp-object-file-name): New function giving preference to
>       files found via load-path instead of loaddefs.el.
>       (describe-function-1): Use new function instead of the removed
>       ones.  (Bugs #587, #669, #690)
>       * faces.el (describe-face): Use 
>     find-lisp-object-file-name instead
>       of describe-simplify-lib-file-name.

Hi Per,

This is the cost of living on the bleeding edge. ;-)

In my code (e.g. help-fns+.el), I don't yet support Emacs 23, which is still
unstable and not yet released.

To the extent I have time, however, I try to adapt my code to changes I notice
in Emacs 23. I don't yet have a Windows binary for any changes that were made on
9/01, and I probably won't have such until next month (thanks, Lennart!). And
Savannah seems to be down currently
(savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/), so I can't get to the
latest source code.

I've replaced `describe-simplify-lib-file-name' with
`find-lisp-object-file-name' if it's available. Dunno if that will suffice here.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your report. Let me know if this
change does the trick.






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