[ESS-bugs] ess puts nil in load-history

[Thomas Alexander Gerds]

Hi Martin

thanks for getting back to me. I have opened a github issue as
suggested. 

best regards,
Thomas

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

>>>>>> Thomas Alexander Gerds <tag at biostat.ku.dk>
>>>>>>     on Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:10:16 +0100 writes:
>
>     > Dear ESS team on emacs 26.0.50.1 after loading ess
>     > (16.10-1 [elpa: 20170206.310]) via
>
>     > (use-package ess-site :ensure ess)
>
>     > I get
>
>     > (mapcar 'car load-history)
>
>     > "/home/tag/emacs-genome/genes/ess-20170206.310/lisp/ess-site.elc"
>     > nil
>     > "/home/tag/emacs-genome/genes/ess-20170206.310/lisp/ess-toolbar.elc"
>     > "/home/tag/emacs-genome/genes/ess-20170206.310/lisp/ess-mouse.elc"
>
>     > the 'nil' occasionally causes an error when help--loaded-p
>     > does this:
>
>     > (dolist (x load-history) (if (string-match-p re (car x))
>     > (setq done t)))
>
>     > can anyone recognize, reproduce or even better solve this
>     > problem?
>
> I'm typically not so much interested in what the development
> version of Emacs does (as long as it is not close to release
> ?!).
>
> However, I can partly reproduce the problem in emacs 25,
> simply using
>
>  emacs -Q
>
> and then
>
>   (require 'ess-site "<my-path-to-ess>/ess-site.el")
>
> after which your (mapcar 'car load-history)
>
> (mapcar 'car load-history)
> ("/..../lisp/ess-site.el" "/usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/ido.elc"
>  nil "..../lisp/ess-toolbar.elc" .......)
>
> i.e., does contain a  'nil' as well.
>
> Currently I have no time to delve into this, but it would be
> nice if you'd open a  github issue with this, ideally using
> emacs 25.x instead of 26.0.y :
>       https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues
>
> Thank you, and best regards,
> Martin
>
> ---
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>
>
>
>     > thanks Thomas
>
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Thomas A. Gerds -- Department of Biostatistics
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