solved[]Re: No Help Window from *Packages* - No Package Specified Error

[Tim Johnson]

See
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39682
and bottom posting on this message
On 2/17/20 2:26 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.30)
>
> When I run emacs with init.el and then invoke list-packages, the help 
> window does not show for a package, regardless of mouse click or using 
> keystroke "?"
>
> This is not a problem when I start emacs with -q.
>
> I'm loading a lot of stuff in init.el, so I would welcome any ideas as 
> to what I have 'require'd or configured.

This issue was submitted as a bug. Subsequently the package maintainers 
and the individual associated by the bug report were initially unable to 
reproduce the error message of "No Package Specifiied"

I received instructions on how to debug the the request. I found that 
the command describe-package was failing because the original defun of 
that name was overriden by the the fn-help+ package that was a 
dependency of the dired+ package. If you were to invoke list-packages 
and run describe-package against you will see that it is recommended 
that the package source be recompiled whenever a new version of emacs is 
installed.

Kudos to Drew and Noam...

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Tim
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