From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: missing P function Date: 20 Sep 2006 02:53:54 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1158746034.034132.319100@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158748834 22326 80.91.229.2 (20 Sep 2006 10:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 20 12:40:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPzV7-0008Bp-PW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:40:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPzV6-0005PY-Tw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:40:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1158746040 28871 127.0.0.1 (20 Sep 2006 09:54:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:54:00 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141889 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37510 Archived-At: Jason Church wrote: > Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional. > Emacs 21.3.1 > > I've run into an issue of missing what I believe is a standard emacs > function. > call-interactively: Symbol's value as variable is void: p > > I have also noticed I can't find any functions that end in -p, for > example file-newer-than-file-p. At one point this used to work for me, > but I can't remember when. Perhaps and older version of emacs. > > Both my home and work PCs run into the same issue. > > I've attempted to locate the missing functions but so far I haven't come > across any. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Most of the functions that end in "-p" or just "p" are only functions, they are not commands and can't be run interactively. That is, they show up when you do C-h f but not when you do M-x. They're for elisp use. I think a handful can but I can't remember which ones. AFAIK Emacs has always worked this way regarding these functions.