Re: Quirky Emacs behavior -- any ideas?

2003-01-07 Thread Shin'ichi Matsuo
Andrew Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, when I try: M-x describe-function RET documentation RET I get: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #[(new-pos old-pos At this point, the documentation function has already replaced by wrapper. To invoke EMACS without

Re: Quirky Emacs behavior -- any ideas?

2003-01-06 Thread Joe Buehler
Shin'ichi Matsuo wrote: M-x describe-function RET documentation RET -- Buffer: *Help* -- documentation is a built-in function. [Missing arglist. Please make a bug report.] region of text with the same `field' property. If NEW-POS is nil, then the current point is used

Re: Quirky Emacs behavior -- any ideas?

2003-01-06 Thread Shin'ichi Matsuo
Joe Buehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very interesting -- something is mightily messed up here -- you did not get back the documentation for the proper function. What version of emacs 21.2 are you running, and on what version of Windows? I'm now using emacs 21.2-9. No problem. emacs 21.2-9

Re: Quirky Emacs behavior -- any ideas?

2003-01-06 Thread Andrew Mayer
Well, when I try: M-x describe-function RET documentation RET I get: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #[(new-pos old-pos optional escape-from-edge only-in-line inh$ ^K^L^M%\211^P;\2035^@\310^N^N^H\\2035^@\311^H\312\224\312\225#@\211^^^O\313 N\2034^@\314^N^O!^P

Re: Quirky Emacs behavior -- any ideas?

2003-01-05 Thread Shin'ichi Matsuo
Joe Buehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: documentation function, which it renames to ad-Orig-documentation. For some reason 5 arguments are being passed when the original function expects only 1 or 2. M-x describe-function RET documentation RET -- Buffer: *Help* -- documentation

Re: Quirky Emacs behavior -- any ideas?

2003-01-03 Thread Joe Buehler
Dr. Andrew Mayer wrote: ** ad-Orig-documentation called with 5 arguments, but accepts only 1-2 I recall some problem of this sort in the near past, but cannot remember exactly what it was. Code in advice.el creates a wrapper for the documentation function, which it renames to

Quirky Emacs behavior -- any ideas?

2002-12-31 Thread Dr. Andrew Mayer
Hi Folks, Does this jog anyone's memory? New XP SP1 install, new cygwin install (full) Quirk #1: When I launch Emacs, I get this scratch buffer popping up which reads: ** ad-Orig-documentation called with 5 arguments, but accepts only 1-2 Then, I notice that apropos is broken. For example,