From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: error entering dired Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:29:28 +1300 Message-ID: <18294.4984.463712.867677@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <87odccynw0.fsf@trollope.org> <87k5mydgoj.fsf@trollope.org> <87ir2i4njx.fsf@member.fsf.org> <18293.26873.895095.827498@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wsqycrew.fsf@newsguy.com> <18293.40378.231191.394693@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87sl1mc52s.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198920610 18774 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2007 09:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: reader@newsguy.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 29 10:30:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J8Y1O-0007g2-Sx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:30:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8Y13-0007nc-Fc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8Y0j-0007nN-Se for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8Y0i-0007my-0i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8Y0h-0007mv-QS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:29:39 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J8Y0h-0001Hq-Jl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:29:39 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (183.31.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.31.183]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B643DA35F; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:29:31 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6554B8FC6D; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:29:29 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: <87sl1mc52s.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.0.50.18 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:50380 Archived-At: > There may be something jacked up in my install but I'm running 22. > It was installed by the portage tools on gentoo emacs. Might be a bug > for the installer or something. I have had older versions installed > way back. > > (wrapped for mail) > Its a symlink to what appears to be the proper man page for 22.1 > ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1.bz2 > lrwxrwxrwx [...] Dec 22 12:47 \ > /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1.bz2 -> emacs-emacs-22.1.bz2 It looks like a Gentoo problem. What does it say at the end of the manpage? I get: GNU Emacs 22.1 2007 April 13 EMACS(1) -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob