From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Saklad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string?... Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:47:02 -0400 Message-ID: <5ifvzizbdl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83sj3izd5s.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364296079 19503 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2013 11:07:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:07:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 26 12:08:26 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKRjq-0005K4-38 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:08:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKRjS-0004An-5A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37943) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKRPE-0004N7-2p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKRPC-0005wB-Iq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKRPC-0005w7-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: from dsaklad by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKRPC-0003h7-7o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:47:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83sj3izd5s.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:08:31 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89762 Archived-At: In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string?... ESC-s didn't work ! >> ESC-s or M-s do work for me. What "didn't work" for you, exactly? Wrong type argument: listp, 40 >> Right after typing ESC-s, or after you typed some regexp at its >> prompt? After ESC-s > If the latter, what did you type at the prompt? 365text a) Any idea what that means?... b) why did it appear? > Set debug-on-error to a non-nil value and see what's in the backtrace. > > Oh, and make sure ESC-s indeed invokes rmail-search and not something > else (use "C-h c" to see the binding).