Re: apropos-documentation fails all the time

[Tim X]

"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

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