Re: funcall of load-read-function (default nil) in elisp--eval-defun

[Michael Heerdegen]

Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> writes:

> I see this line in elisp--eval-defun at least Emacs 28 - 30 (pre-release):
>
>           (setq form (funcall load-read-function (current-buffer)))
>
> The default for load-read-function is nil, so it can't be called as a
> function by default.

The default has been `read' since Emacs 25.1.

> The value for me is indeed nil and is triggering an error for me when
> trying to evaluate an ert-deftest expression.

I don't see a place in Emacs where this variable is set to nil.  Why
could it be bound to nil for you?


Michael.