[debbugs-tracker] bug#14356: closed (24.3; Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following)

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> 24.3; Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following
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> Tue, 07 May 2013 01:20:24 +0200
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> I have noticed this issue for second time this week.
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> When trying to access emacs help (C-h f) I am getting the error:
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>     help-setup-xref: Symbol's value as variable is void: help-xref-following
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> I tracked it down to the warnign in *messages*
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>    Warning: defvar ignored because help-xref-following is let-bound
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> so the variable help-xref-following in help-mode.el is not getting
> defined during the auto-load for the above reason.
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> Any ideas of how to debug this issue? It is not reproducible, it just
> happens from time to time.
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>     Vitalie
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> In GNU Emacs 24.3.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)
>  of 2013-04-29 on vitoshka-home
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11303000
> System Description:     Ubuntu 13.04
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> Configured using:
>  `configure '--with-x-toolkit=lucid''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Tue, 07 May 2013 09:28:38 +0900
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> Gnus/5.130008 (真 Gnus v0.8)	Emacs/24.3.50 (i686-pc-cygwin)
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> Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> > Looks like a problem with a third-party package. Someone let-binds
> > `help-xref-following' somewhere.
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> > Here's an old commit in auto-complete fixing that:
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> > https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete/commit/75482c79c5d1a46f9097cc27b568aa66ef0add07
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> Sorry, I am at least one of the culprits.  I've committed a fix
> to gnus-art.el in the trunk.  Please reopen this bug thread if
> it doesn't solve the problem.
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