GNU bug report logs - #39529
28.0.50; Metahelp does not contain help text

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 19:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 39529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: federicotedin <at> gmail.com, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 39529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39529: 28.0.50; Metahelp does not contain help text
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:34:40 +0200
> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:22:54 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 39529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > From: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 20:06:40 +0100
> > 
> > On Emacs 28.0.50 (5e7bead8ea), typing C-h C-h will display the
> > *Metahelp* buffer, but instead of containing the usual help information,
> > it will contain just the following:
> > 
> > Automatically break line at a previous space, in insertion of text.
> 
> It's related to dumping in some way, because in temacs this works as
> expected.

I suspect the sxhash changes on Jan 7.  This problem started happening
in that day's build.




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