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Re: apropos-documentation fails all the time


From: Eric S Fraga
Subject: Re: apropos-documentation fails all the time
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:39:51 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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


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