GNU bug report logs - #44624
28.0.50; C-h f fails with search failed "*\n"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:11:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44624: 28.0.50; C-h f fails with search failed "*\n"
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 10:52:36 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> [2020-11-14 10:13]:
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> > Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:09:00 +0300
> > 
> > 
> > I cannot in this git version invoke C-h f as it fails each time.
> > 
> > C-h f for find-file says: help-fns--first-release: Search failed: "
> > *"
> 
> I cannot reproduce this with today's master.  Suggest to update from
> Git and perhaps also "make bootstrap".

Upgraded, git fsck, make bootstrap, still emacs -Q gives me that.

Hard to understand.
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