bug#58280: 29.0.50; package-install: slime, loaddefs-generate: Search failed: " "

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> The problem here is that the `slime' package already comes with a file
> "slime-autoloads.el", which means that the attempt to auto-generate a
> new one fails:
>
>     https://github.com/slime/slime/blob/master/slime-autoloads.el
>
> Here's the backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (search-failed "\f\n")
>   search-backward("\f\n")

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.

(But perhaps the slime package should also be fixed to not include a
"hand-made" loaddefs file...)