From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 13:55:05 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: * lisp/help-fns.el (describe-symbol): `nil' is not an interesting default.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.0.90~521^2~705
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e3eea9a4b449c87a3bb022098a9e6f1bda805cb3;p=emacs.git

* lisp/help-fns.el (describe-symbol): `nil' is not an interesting default.
---

diff --git a/lisp/help-fns.el b/lisp/help-fns.el
index 69a6113eda1..5459ddf4a39 100644
--- a/lisp/help-fns.el
+++ b/lisp/help-fns.el
@@ -1096,8 +1096,8 @@ frame to show the information about SYMBOL; they default to the
 current buffer and the selected frame, respectively."
   (interactive
    (let* ((v-or-f (symbol-at-point))
-          (found (cl-some (lambda (x) (funcall (nth 1 x) v-or-f))
-                          describe-symbol-backends))
+          (found (if v-or-f (cl-some (lambda (x) (funcall (nth 1 x) v-or-f))
+                                     describe-symbol-backends)))
           (v-or-f (if found v-or-f (function-called-at-point)))
           (found (or found v-or-f))
           (enable-recursive-minibuffers t)