**When I hit ctl-C ctl-C to send the bug report, the message-ID came up as you see below. So I've copied the whole message and am sending it through the regular office email. Consider yourselves tickled.** ----------------------------- From: Mark Mandel To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cc: Mark Mandel Subject: 23.2; wrong message for "apropos" Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:07:24 -0500 Message-ID: --text follows this line-- I am used to using ctl-H ctl-A for "apropos", i.e., find commands by looking for substrings. But when I use ctl-H ctl-A I see (what I guess is) the Gnu Emacs welcome or general info screen, and the minibuffer says something like "To search for help on a subject, use ctl-H ctl-A": that is, "Keep hitting your head against this wall." I tried it several times, with the same dumb result. Then I tried ctl-H A, which is in the ctl-H ? help command list. That worked, and *that*'s what the minibuffer should say under the general info screen. My email address is mamandel@ldc.upenn.edu, not the almost certainly useless address that this bug report command put into the "From:" line (mamandel@Mark-Mandels-iMac-2.local). So I have changed it up there and also added my address as Cc. -- Mark A. Mandel In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29) of 2010-05-08 on black.local Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038 configured using `configure '--host=x86_64-apple-darwin' '--build=i686-apple-darwin' '--with-ns' 'build_alias=i686-apple-darwin' 'host_alias=x86_64-apple-darwin' 'CC=gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: nil default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Apropos Minor modes in effect: show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: s-v

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