From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string?...
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:08:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sj3izd5s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5iip4ezdo6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:57:29 -0400
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> 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? If the latter, what did you type at the prompt?
> 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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-26 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-26 8:47 In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string? Don Saklad
2013-03-26 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 9:57 ` Don Saklad
2013-03-26 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-03-26 10:47 ` Don Saklad
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