28.0.50; [bug] Inside help buffers escaped symbol[s] causing a problem.

28.0.50; [bug] Inside help buffers escaped symbol[s] causing a problem.

[Achilles Yuce]

Hello Everyone,

After using `org-store-link`; i was expecting to jump back to what i
stored which is the buffer to see after evaluating (describe-symbol '\`)
but instead i got an `user-error` as you can see in [Recent messages:]
section in this report. I believe this shouldn't be the case. My exact
steps included in [Losage:] section.

FWIW I somehow managed to fix it by removing the '\'s from the captured
string defined in lisp/org/ol.el file. Also adding diff output.

Sincerely,

--
Achilles Yuce                               GPG: B631 00A1 35BC 97C2 24A1
                                                 3306 44F9 71F3 1CCF 32E2

=========================================================================

Emacs Command:
emacs -Q

Starting Buffer:
*scratch*

Lossage: [`self-insert-command`s simplified for readability]
 M-x			;; execute-extended-command
 org-mode		;; self-insert-command
 <return>		;; minibuffer-complete-and-exit
 C-h o			;; describe-symbol
 `			;; self-insert-command
 <return>		;; minibuffer-complete-and-exit
 C-x o			;; other-window
 M-x			;; execute-extended-command
 org-store-link		;; self-insert-command
 <return>		;; minibuffer-complete-and-exit
 C-x o                  ;; other-window
 C-c C-l		;; org-insert-link
 M-p			;; previous-history-element
 <return>		;; exit-minibuffer
 backquote		;; self-insert-command
 <return>		;; exit-minibuffer
 C-b			;; backward-char
 C-c C-o		;; org-open-at-point

Recent messages:
Stored: help:\`
user-error: Unknown function or variable: \`

Diff:
--- a/lisp/org/ol.el
+++ b/lisp/org/ol.el
@@ -1465,10 +1465,11 @@ org-store-link
          (org-link-store-props :type "calendar" :date cd)))

        ((eq major-mode 'help-mode)
-       (setq link (concat "help:" (save-excursion
-                                    (goto-char (point-min))
-                                    (looking-at "^[^ ]+")
-                                    (match-string 0))))
+       (setq link (replace-regexp-in-string "\\\\" ""
+                     (concat "help:" (save-excursion
+                                     (goto-char (point-min))
+                                     (looking-at "^[^ ]+")
+                                     (match-string 0)))))
        (org-link-store-props :type "help"))

        ((eq major-mode 'w3-mode)


In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.17, cairo version 1.17.3)
 of 2020-04-26 built on machine
Repository revision: 9dccaf8a5cdb10dae597345ec3741475477a7d97
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000
System Description: Arch Linux

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Org

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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org-element avl-tree generator ol-eww ol-rmail ol-mhe ol-irc ol-info
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org-list org-faces org-entities time-date subr-x noutline outline
easy-mmode org-version ob-emacs-lisp ob-core ob-eval org-table ol
org-keys org-compat advice org-macs org-loaddefs format-spec find-func
cal-menu easymenu calendar cal-loaddefs cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip eldoc
electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win
x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
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select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
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backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting
system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit
x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 160413 38075)
 (symbols 48 18241 1)
 (strings 32 61281 2269)
 (string-bytes 1 2009141)
 (vectors 16 28851)
 (vector-slots 8 326560 14198)
 (floats 8 197 289)
 (intervals 56 249 0)
 (buffers 1000 12))

Re: 28.0.50; [bug] Inside help buffers escaped symbol[s] causing a problem.

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Achilles Yuce <ayuce@posteo.mx> writes:

> After using `org-store-link`; i was expecting to jump back to what i
> stored which is the buffer to see after evaluating (describe-symbol '\`)
> but instead i got an `user-error` as you can see in [Recent messages:]
> section in this report. I believe this shouldn't be the case. My exact
> steps included in [Losage:] section.
>
> FWIW I somehow managed to fix it by removing the '\'s from the captured
> string defined in lisp/org/ol.el file. Also adding diff output.

It looks like a bug in Emacs, doesn't it? Why would Info buffer display
"\`" when you write "`"? I suggest to report it to Emacs developers.
Meanwhile, I pushed a work around. Thank you.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: 28.0.50; [bug] Inside help buffers escaped symbol[s] causing a problem.

[Achilles Yuce]

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> It looks like a bug in Emacs, doesn't it? Why would Info buffer display
> "\`" when you write "`"? I suggest to report it to Emacs developers.
> Meanwhile, I pushed a work around. Thank you.

Thank you for the work around. 

As for the questions: I wouldn't know but probably help modes only care
for what the actual help/describe functions provide instead of the
interactive input.


      Achilles