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Re: apropos-documentation fails all the time
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Eric S Fraga |
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Re: apropos-documentation fails all the time |
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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:39:51 +0000 |
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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > Yes, please report a bug. I assume you started from emacs -Q.
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>> No, I haven't. I'll try that and will get back to you.
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> 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.
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Thanks. Bisection indeed was going to be my first approach if no
obvious places to look at were suggested.
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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 + No Gnus v0.11