From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: apropos-documentation fails all the time Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:15:25 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <874o9ee5ki.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87bp43yo9j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87ei8zvtcq.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <871v4yzr3j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87aajlw8cq.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294834826 10563 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2011 12:20:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:20:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 12 13:20:22 2011 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 1Pczgb-0004Ay-Tv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:20:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37291 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pczgb-0002PD-3J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:20:21 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SkaJwImdqh90lJ9nExt+9w.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Cancel-Lock: sha1:EkuTKEdUO9wZOUxeeb5ycM61Lz8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184231 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:78408 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > "Drew Adams" writes: > >>> 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 >> >> > > I cannot reproduce it either using emacs 24.0.50. Note that Drew's > comment regarding running with -Q and seeing if the problem exists is > critical. This will tell you if it is a bug in the core emacs program or > from something in your .emacs or an additional package that has been > installed > > Tim Just to give an update on this problem: - with emacs -Q, I can load up my initialisation files (.emacs and all the bits it refers to) and there are no problems: C-h d works just fine. - with emacs -q, the error reappears. If I set apropos-do-all to nil, everything works fine (although I obviously lose the functionality provided by this setting). There is something in my site wide initialisation that is conflicting with apropos-do-all obviously. Unfortunately, I have way too many packages (all from Debian repositories, mind you) to even begin figuring out where to look. Any further suggestions are more than welcome but, at least, for the time being I can put up without apropos-do-all. Thanks again, eric -- Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D)