:local attribute in iedit-lib.el is breaking emacs version > 26.3

[sbroberg]

I recently did an elpa update recently (from Time-stamp: <2020-04-12 14:43:27 Victor Ren> to Time-stamp: <2022-01-14 12:33:25 Victor Ren>) and iedit now breaks on startup with the error:

error: Unknown keyword :local

for any version of emacs I'm using >= 26.3

The problem appears to be the :local in elpa-lib.el. If I remove that line, everything works correctly.

I see that the .el files say "Compatibility: GNU Emacs: 22.x, 23.x, 24.x, 25.x". Is iedit not supported for anything newer than 25.x?

[pstray]

Seems :local is a new thing, introduced with custom.el shipped with emacs 27.1. So I guess you mean <= 26.3 @sbroberg, not >=. For me it works fine in 27.1, but not 26.3.

[azegas]

Having the same issue here. Could you please tell me what did you do to make this package work?

In my init.el I have this:

(use-package iedit :ensure t :bind (("C-c ;" . iedit-mode)))

I deleted the line :local t in file called "iedit-lib.el" (source code of the iedit package), but the problem persists. Same error "Unknown keyword :local" appears when I click C-c ;.

Looks like a cool plungin, hope I can use it one day.

Thanks

[fixmaker]

Having the same issue here. Could you please tell me what did you do to make this package work?

I deleted the line :local t in file called "iedit-lib.el", but the problem persists. Same error "Unknown keyword :local" appears when I click C-m ;.

Looks like a cool plungin, hope I can use it one day.

Thanks

@arvydasg I fixed this by deleting the line in iedit-lib.el and then byte compiling the file (while viewing the file, run M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile).

[azegas]

Having the same issue here. Could you please tell me what did you do to make this package work? I deleted the line :local t in file called "iedit-lib.el", but the problem persists. Same error "Unknown keyword :local" appears when I click C-m ;. Looks like a cool plungin, hope I can use it one day. Thanks

@arvydasg I fixed this by deleting the line in iedit-lib.el and then byte compiling the file (while viewing the file, run M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile).

@fixmaker Thanks! Now it works great. Wohooo!

It was my first time editing emacs package source code... Thank for teaching me that simple C-x C-s is not enough for saving modifications made to such files.

[thierryvolpiatto]

Anyway,for any emacs versions, I guess iedit-auto-buffering should not be a local variable, it is just a flag to tell iedit to set (locally this time) iedit-buffering.

[victorhge]

:local removed in dd5d75b38ee0c52ad81245a8e5c932d3f5c4772d