address@hidden: Emacs 21.2.92 - Bizarreness in `C-h f']

[Richard Stallman]

This is probably caused by the fact that parse-time.el contains
(defvar elt).  In other words, there is confusion between the file
that defines the function and the file that defines the variable.

I will fix it by renaming the variable used in parse-time.el,
which I think is an improvement anyway.  But the bug in recording
definitions is more general than this and would be good to fix.

Would someone like to work on it?

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Hello, Richard.  The following report still applies for Emacs 21.2.92.


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Hello, Gerd.  Still using Emacs 21.0.105...

If I do `C-h f elt RET' in a bare Emacs session, I get:

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elt is a built-in function.
(elt SEQUENCE N)

Return element of SEQUENCE at index N.
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If now, I do `M-x load-library RET parse-time RET', and retry `C-h f':

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------->
elt is a built-in function in `parse-time'.
(elt SEQUENCE N)

Return element of SEQUENCE at index N.
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In that `*Help*' window, `TAB RET' yields:

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Cannot find definition of `elt' in library `parse-time'
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I'm tempted to think that some of the later replies are not normal.

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