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- Path: sparky!uunet!hoptoad!dante!mason
- From: mason@dante.uucp (Mason Jones)
- Subject: Apropos file damaged?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.233148.24565@dante.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 23:31:48 GMT
- Organization: Charnel House Prod.
- Lines: 35
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-
- For some unknown reason, our file which contains the function
- definitions displayed by the apropos help command seems to have
- gotten damaged. Or, alternately, that information might not be
- contained in a file, in which case the apropos function itself
- is behaving oddly. In any case, what happens is this...
-
- Entering the apropos command is fine, and entering the regexp
- works fine. It comes up with the correct functions, but the
- description which follows is garbage, such as this, from doing
- an apropos on 'insert':
-
- insert-abbrevs
- Function: r,
- insert-buffer
- Function: ent stretch of killed text
- insert-file C-x i
- Function:
- insert-kbd-macro
- Function: do (setq lisp-mode-hook 'ledit-from-list-mode)
-
- And so on. Obviously, either there's a file with the apropos text
- in it which has gotten damaged, or the function which extracts the
- information from wherever it might be has gone insane.
-
- If it's a file, which one is it, and I'll simply get it off tape
- again. If something else is going on, any help would be greatly
- appreciated; our new Emacs users may kill me otherwise...
-
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