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From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: apropos-documentation fails all the time
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:33:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aajlw8cq.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10.1293760826.12460.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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

-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-01  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-30 20:55 apropos-documentation fails all the time Eric S Fraga
2010-12-30 21:33 ` Tim X
2010-12-30 23:07   ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5.1293750501.12460.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-31  1:08     ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-31  2:00       ` Drew Adams
     [not found]       ` <mailman.10.1293760826.12460.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-01  4:33         ` Tim X [this message]
2011-01-12 11:15           ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-12 15:16             ` Drew Adams
2011-01-13  1:31             ` Tim X
2011-01-01 21:01         ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-01 21:48           ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-01 21:49           ` Drew Adams
2011-01-07  1:29             ` delete-selection-mode on viper Maindoor
2011-01-07  8:17               ` Le Wang
     [not found]               ` <mailman.4.1294388284.2099.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-09-11  2:37                 ` s.sanjeevkumar
     [not found]           ` <mailman.13.1293918601.32515.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-02 19:39             ` apropos-documentation fails all the time Eric S Fraga

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