From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reader@newsguy.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: error entering dired Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:50:35 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87sl1mc52s.fsf@newsguy.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198914692 7094 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2007 07:51:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:51:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 29 08:51:46 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 1J8WTy-0007GJ-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:51:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WTd-0008Ki-AK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:51:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WTL-0008Kc-7e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:51:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WTK-0008KQ-MI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WTK-0008KN-GY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J8WTK-0004Zz-6h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J8WTI-0002XM-43 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:51:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WT0-0000vE-Gl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:50:46 +0000 Original-Received: from adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([75.3.178.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:50:46 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:50:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xb1jiMcLwLj5JWgCn7GSKbfY17M= X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:50378 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > reader@newsguy.com writes: > > Sorry to butt into this with a different topic but what does the > > uppercase Q signify? > > > > emacs --help and `man emacs' show nothing using -Q (uppercase) > > Then you must have Emacs 21 or earlier. Emacs 22 gives: > > --quick, -Q equivalent to -q --no-site-file --no-splash 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