Startup error: Symbol's function definition is void: helm-descbinds-mode

[cilia]

Hi, just installed the package, and edit the Emacs config, but getting the error message above.

Doing --debug-init gives the following:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function helm-descbinds-mode)
(helm-descbinds-mode)
eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/Users/cilia/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 2821
load-with-code-conversion("/Users/cilia/.emacs" "/Users/cilia/.emacs" t t)
load("~/.emacs" t t)
#[0 "^H\205\262^@   \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202;^@\311=\204^^^@\307^H\312Q\202;^@\313\307\314\315#\203*^@\316\202;^@\313\307\314\$ ...
command-line()
normal-top-level()

I installed helm-descbinds from melpa-stable, which I am not sure if it is up-to-update. Any idea how to fix the problem is much appreciated.

[michael-heerdegen]

The first standard question in such a situation is whether you have

(package-initialize)

in your config, which is mandatory.

[cilia]

Yes, I do have it, at the top section of my .emacs. I've tried manually compiling and installing helm-descbinds, and loaded the package manually with (require 'helm-descbinds) and that worked fine.

Anything else I can check?

[cilia]

Related, I see in the README that, both of the following are required in the config for helm-descbinds to work:

(require 'helm-descbinds)
(helm-descbinds-mode)

But my understanding is that, if the package is installed using the package manager (e.g. from MELPA or MELPA-stable), then we don't need to have (require 'helm-descbinds) in the config?

[michael-heerdegen]

The package at Melpa stable is not up-to-date, see https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-descbinds/issues/10, but I hope it will be very soon.

My version (I use the repository repo) has an autoload cookie before the definition of helm-descbinds-mode. Does your version have it? If not: that's the problem. If it has, I don't understand what's going on.

The code of helm-descbinds clearly needs some love, and maybe a new maintainer, too.

[michael-heerdegen]

Does the problem persist with the new version at Melpa stable, @cilia?

[michael-heerdegen]

Please reopen if you still see the problem, thanks.