From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "H." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help system question Date: 27 Dec 2006 05:55:36 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1167227736.408325.258730@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: <1167211521.097281.239230@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167230434 26085 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 14:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 27 15:40:33 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 1GzZxG-0001TY-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:40:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzZxG-0002kz-8e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.150.136.23 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1167227742 29232 127.0.0.1 (27 Dec 2006 13:55:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:55:42 +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:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.150.136.23; posting-account=irt3NQ0AAACdA0KH7MzrIeouIumqR687 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144348 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:39951 Archived-At: > Please look inside the directory where buff-menu.elc is installed on > your system (if you don't know where that is, then the value of the > load-path variable will list all the possible places). Do you see > buff-menu.el there? If not, that is the cause of your problem: > whoever installed Emacs on your system removed the *.el files. > > Btw, what version of Emacs is that? ("M-x emacs-version RET" will > tell you, if you don't know.) Thanks. I see the problem now. I'm a student at UC Berkeley, and using a version of cygwin provided internally which contains only a subset of gnu emacs. To prevent these kind of snafus in the future, I am now going to download a full and recent version. btw, the version listed is: GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X-toolkit) of 2004-03-22 on cm-test