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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Hello,
>
> quick question: every time I try apropos-documentation, I get a
> wrong-type-argument error:
>
> ,----
> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp format)
> |   insert-file-contents(format)
> |   apropos-documentation-check-elc-file(format)
> |   apropos-documentation-internal((format "%s (local)" nil))
> |   #[(symbol) "\306!.\307N\211.\250\203.

I cannot reproduce this in emacs 24.0.50 (dev version from bzr). What
version of emacs and what is the argument you are passing to the
command?

Tim

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