From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: hbe123@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: help system question Date: 27 Dec 2006 01:25:21 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1167211521.097281.239230@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167212482 11280 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 09:41:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 27 10:41:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzVHc-0001xI-MN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:41:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzVHc-0003wv-2g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:41:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.150.136.23 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1167211525 22251 127.0.0.1 (27 Dec 2006 09:25:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:25:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.150.136.23; posting-account=irt3NQ0AAACdA0KH7MzrIeouIumqR687 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144336 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:39938 Archived-At: Hi.I'm a fairly new emacs user. When I access the "describe-function" help command, I get a helpful screen that tells me about the function and which file contains it. Like the following: "buffer-menu is an interactive compiled Lisp function in '_buff-menu_'. Because buff-menu is underlined, I think it is a link, and I position the cursor over it and press Enter. The mini-buffer then gives me the following message: "The library 'buff-menu' is not in the path" So what I am wondering is, is this a message that everyone gets, perhaps because buff-menu is a compiled file, or is there something wrong about my particular setup which is causing this error message? Thanks.