hesterbe@ole3.math.stolaf.edu (Tim Hesterberg) (09/02/89)
Bug report by Tim Hesterberg, hesterbe@troilus.stolaf.edu Help isn't working. In general a description of a function gives the function name correctly but gives garbage for documentation. This garbage may not be the same every invocation of emacs. Examples are: ------------------------------- "C-h a describe" results the following appearing in the *Help* window: shell C-x * e t Function: full, hairy RFC822 parser on mail addresses. shell-command ESC ! Function: has been changed or is not the most recent previous command shell-command-on-region ESC | Function: ommand start-shell Function: Keyboard macro. ------------------------------- "C-h d shell" results in the following appearing in the *Help* window: shell: full, hairy RFC822 parser on mail addresses. Otherwise, (the default) use a smaller, somewhat faster and often-correct parser. ------------------------------- "C-h C-h C-h" results in the following appearing in the *Help* window: ent FUNCTION to it. If FUNCTION is nil, applies `message' to it, thus printing it. ------------------------------- "C-h v fill-column" results in ...: fill-column's value is 70 Documentation: - -- print infinitely many dashes. Decimal digits after the % specify field width to which to pad. ------------------------------- "C-h m" while in Fundamental mode gives: Fundamental Mode: mark. ------------------------------- "C-h k C-k" results in: kill-line: argument for the following command. Digits or minus sign following this command make up the numeric argument. If no digits or minus sign follow, this command by itself provides 4 as argument. Used more than once, this command multiplies the argument by 4 each time. -------------------------------