From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: apropos-documentation fails all the time Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:00:12 -0800 Message-ID: <7A422EDF03384759B1920192D93E0955@us.oracle.com> References: <87bp43yo9j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87ei8zvtcq.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <871v4yzr3j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293760850 9242 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2010 02:00:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:00:50 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Eric S Fraga'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 03:00:46 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PYUIO-0005U4-I8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:00:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYUIN-00016x-Go for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:00:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50581 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYUI4-00016s-OU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PYUI3-0002DN-I6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:00:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:47461) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PYUI3-0002DJ-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id oBV20KwP030866 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:00:21 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id oBV1Zw7c025900; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:00:19 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt020.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 891139751293760819; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:00:19 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.223.98) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:00:18 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <871v4yzr3j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Thread-Index: Acuoi6mgAUagKHuiT6iGkFj84rkcjwAAny6g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:77983 Archived-At: > I am using emacs 23.2.1 from Debian testing. apropos-do-all > is t. The error occurs regardless of what I pass to > apropos-documentation, interactively typically; e.g. > C-h d .*documentation.* RET > gives the error as does any string really, whether a regex or not. > I will report a bug if nobody can suggest anything that can alleviate > this problem. Yes, please report a bug. I assume you started from emacs -Q. With emacs 23.2.1 I cannot reproduce it: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1