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If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': I was surprised to see that function "describe-syntax" is not mentioned in the Elisp Info manual. I would recommend that it should be mentioned in the section on Syntax Tables. If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file c:/Program Files/emacs-24.2/etc/DEBUG. In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Apropos Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t display-time-mode: t dynamic-completion-mode: t savehist-mode: t mail-abbrevs-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: - d o - l i s t C-x C-b n n SPC x o c c u r C-x o C-x 1 C-x C-b n n SPC C-x C-b n n n SPC C-x 2 C-x C-b n n SPC > d C-d C-x C-s C-h v C-x 1 C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-h i u u 1 n f s y n t a x SPC t a l SPC 2 SPC SPC n u u m c a t e g o r SPC SPC SPC u 3 SPC SPC b u u 1 C-h ? SPC s C-x 0 q C-h k C-h s i d e s c r i b e - s y n t a x t s d e s c r i b e - s y n t a x C-x 1 C-h f d e s c r i b e - s y n t a x q s C-g g ( e m a c s ) s t s x s u b m i t a p r o p o s - c o m m a n d b u g C-x 0 C-v x p r e p o r t q x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g Recent messages: Searching subfile elisp-6... Searching subfile elisp-7... Searching subfile elisp-8... Searching subfile elisp-9... Searching subfile elisp-10... Searching subfile elisp-11... Info-search: Search failed: "describe-syntax" Type C-x 1 to remove help window. You can run the command `apropos-command' with C-h a [2 times] Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. Load-path shadows: c:/Program Files/emacs-24.2/lisp/whitespace hides c:/cygwin/home/elisp/whitespace c:/Program Files/emacs-24.2/lisp/textmodes/texinfo hides c:/cygwin/home/elisp/my_lisp/texinfo c:/Program Files/emacs-24.2/lisp/macros hides c:/cygwin/home/elisp/my_lisp/macros c:/cygwin/home/elisp/eudora hides c:/cygwin/home/elisp/my_lisp/eudora c:/cygwin/home/elisp/complete-compress hides c:/cygwin/home/elisp/my_lisp/complete-compress Features: (shadow mailalias vm-reply vm-rfaddons vm-undo vm-virtual vm-summary-faces vm-pop utf7 vm-imap vm-thread vm-mime vm-toolbar vm-menu vm-window vm-folder vm-crypto vm-summary vm-mouse vm-page vm-motion vm-minibuf vm-message vm-misc vm-macro vm emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 gmm-utils mailheader apropos debug mule-util ebuff-menu electric jka-compr misearch multi-isearch shell pcomplete newcomment image-file parse-time vc-cvs cus-edit time vm-autoloads vm-version vm-vars edmacro kmacro completion cl warnings bookmark+ bookmark+-key easy-mmode advice help-fns advice-preload dired-x dired crosshairs col-highlight vline hl-line+ hl-line bookmark+-1 bookmark+-bmu help-mode view bookmark+-lit bookmark pp thingatpt cygwin-mount ange-ftp comint ansi-color ring info easymenu smtpmail auth-source eieio byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv macroexp assoc password-cache sendmail regexp-opt rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums savehist mailabbrev gnus gnus-ems nnheader gnus-util mail-utils mm-util mail-prsvr wid-edit desktop cus-start cus-load time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs) -- Alan Wehmann awehmann@sbcglobal.net From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed Jun 26 03:16:43 2013 Received: (at 14699-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jun 2013 07:16:43 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41831 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Urjy6-0003rz-5J for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:16:42 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:43215 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Urjy3-0003rq-9r for 14699-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:16:39 -0400 Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Urjy1-0005j1-Os; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:16:37 -0400 From: Glenn Morris To: 14699-done@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#14699: 24.2; describe-syntax function not mentioned in elisp Info manual References: <20934.58232.265000.238980@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Spook: credit card Putin Mafia enigma Panama CipherTAC-2000 X-Ran: K*`#._qc|kgQwo9!B9x0lBvp.I"CL$+I.O~.NLW;zZ^u3p|i|3whplS.kKfW;8aC;[uYY0 X-Hue: black X-Debbugs-No-Ack: yes X-Attribution: GM Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:16:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20934.58232.265000.238980@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (awehmann@sbcglobal.net's message of "Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:00:56 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Score: -6.3 (------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 14699-done X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -6.3 (------) Version: 24.4 OK. 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