From b0bf3946b4a24bb39ed0a00215ee87df8c6811f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Bezanson <jeff.bezanson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:37:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix #52986, regression in `@doc` of macro without REPL loaded
 (#55795)

fix #52986

(cherry picked from commit 4045e7baa496b2f14dfe562dbe3700d0c91006ff)
---
 base/docs/Docs.jl | 4 ++++
 test/docs.jl      | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/base/docs/Docs.jl b/base/docs/Docs.jl
index 6be96cd8b1799..21d781035081c 100644
--- a/base/docs/Docs.jl
+++ b/base/docs/Docs.jl
@@ -519,6 +519,10 @@ function _doc(binding::Binding, sig::Type = Union{})
             for msig in multidoc.order
                 sig <: msig && return multidoc.docs[msig]
             end
+            # if no matching signatures, return first
+            if !isempty(multidoc.docs)
+                return first(values(multidoc.docs))
+            end
         end
     end
     return nothing
diff --git a/test/docs.jl b/test/docs.jl
index 8e6023b6b385d..b1281f9ad0612 100644
--- a/test/docs.jl
+++ b/test/docs.jl
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import Base.Docs: meta, @var, DocStr, parsedoc
 
 # check that @doc can work before REPL is loaded
 @test !startswith(read(`$(Base.julia_cmd()) -E '@doc sin'`, String), "nothing")
+@test !startswith(read(`$(Base.julia_cmd()) -E '@doc @time'`, String), "nothing")
 
 using Markdown
 using REPL