From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: apropos-documentation fails all the time Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:16:51 -0800 Message-ID: <936D8CB461F34FBEA95E90A02A8CC962@us.oracle.com> References: <87bp43yo9j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87ei8zvtcq.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au><871v4yzr3j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk><87aajlw8cq.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <874o9ee5ki.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294845483 1447 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2011 15:18:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:18:03 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Eric S Fraga'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 12 16:17:59 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 1Pd2SV-0006w9-OQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:17:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pd2SV-0003bS-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42063 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pd2SC-0003Ys-AQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd2SA-000525-Tb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:17:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:18467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd2SA-00051l-NC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p0CFHaJs006548 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:17:37 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p0C949ct006889; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:17:35 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt006.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 919175091294845417; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:16:57 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.223.199) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:16:53 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <874o9ee5ki.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Thread-Index: AcuyUvUjmy2/zQTuTn+AXXti29hKcQAGENCg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:78412 Archived-At: > 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. Treat your site-wide initialization like you would treat your .emacs. Use emacs -Q, but copy your top-level site init file locally. Load that file explicitly, when you start Emacs up (e.g. -l switch, or M-x load-file after startup), but first comment-out half of the file. Then comment out 1/4, then 1/8,... until you find what part of the site init file is problematic. Binary search that way is very quick. Then report the problem to your site admin or if you have permissions fix it yourself.