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: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:39:51 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87r5cv8588.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87bp43yo9j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87ei8zvtcq.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <871v4yzr3j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87ei8wwd7n.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293997958 8106 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 19:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 19:52:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 20:52:33 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 1PZTyh-0001W1-Pt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:52:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZTnV-0004Rn-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:40:57 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xFD86EDIac5gml0tV0sXTg.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:ZFIUdhp54JhsKGvenGtKlV1XpnY= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183859 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:78068 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> > Yes, please report a bug. I assume you started from emacs -Q. >> >> No, I haven't. I'll try that and will get back to you. > > If the problem doesn't occur for emacs -Q, the way to narrow it down is to > bifurcate your init file (.emacs) by commenting out half (or evaling only half), > then 1/4 (3/4), 1/8 (7/8), etc. It's much quicker than it sounds, and it is > systematic - it's always much better than hit-and-miss guessing. > > Thanks. Bisection indeed was going to be my first approach if no obvious places to look at were suggested. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 + No Gnus v0.11