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Article #98946bug in emacs help?
From: dyck
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 22:32
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 22:32
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Using GNU Emacs 18.55. % gemacs -q C-h C-h C-h The screen shows: ----------- o control of other variables) when it would not result in changing the owner or group of the file; that is, for files which are owned by you and whose group matches the default for a new file created there by you. This variable is relevant only if backup-by-copying is nil. ----------- which is incomplete and unhelpful. Similarly: % gemacs -q C-h a file RET The help window begins: ----------- add-name-to-file Function: ed file. append-to-file Function: rom a program, takes three arguments, START, END and ARG. byte-compile-file Function: d, in a separate process asynchronously copy-file Function: of data inserted. delete-file Function: f non-nil means ----------- Note that the descriptions are incomplete. I suspect that this isn't actually a bug, there's just something wrong with how our Emacs is installed. Can anyone tell what's wrong? Thanks. Michael Dyck Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada dyck@cs.sfu.ca
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