From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: apropos-documentation fails all the time Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:33:57 +1100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87aajlw8cq.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293856828 711 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 04:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 04:40:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 05:40:24 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 1PYtGS-0002p1-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYtGS-0008Bl-30 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:40:24 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g22PXOVd3nwgu5ONIsjTCgw95wk= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fa892b8c.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=ga3mG^EBAXlJ?XMfTm0i_cL?0kYOcDh@jXb<8`kRh<; `jZ[HUKIQP@g]G; 2>V^?kWcCAkl5c@Xgknfoo 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:78004 Archived-At: "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 -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au