bug#12886: 23.2; wrong message for "apropos"

**When I hit ctl-C ctl-C to send the bug report, the message-ID came up as you see below. So I've copied the whole message and am sending it through the regular office email. Consider yourselves tickled.**

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From: Mark Mandel <mamandel@ldc.upenn.edu>

To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Cc: Mark Mandel <mamandel@ldc.upenn.edu>

Subject: 23.2; wrong message for "apropos"

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:07:24 -0500

Message-ID: <ev5j7amwykxgdv.fsf@Mark-Mandels-iMac-2.local.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

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I am used to using ctl-H ctl-A for "apropos", i.e., find commands by

looking for substrings. But when I use ctl-H ctl-A I see (what I guess

is) the Gnu Emacs welcome or general info screen, and the minibuffer says something like

"To search for help on a subject, use ctl-H ctl-A": that is, "Keep

hitting your head against this wall." I tried it several times, with the

same dumb result.

Then I tried ctl-H A, which is in the ctl-H ? help command list. That

worked, and *that*'s what the minibuffer should say under the general

info screen.

My email address is mamandel@ldc.upenn.edu, not the almost certainly

useless address that this bug report command put into the "From:" line

(mamandel@Mark-Mandels-iMac-2.local). So I have changed it up there and

also added my address as Cc.

-- Mark A. Mandel

In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29)

of 2010-05-08 on black.local

Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038

configured using `configure '--host=x86_64-apple-darwin' '--build=i686-apple-darwin' '--with-ns' 'build_alias=i686-apple-darwin' 'host_alias=x86_64-apple-darwin' 'CC=gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5''

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: nil

value of $XMODIFIERS: nil

locale-coding-system: nil

default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Apropos

Minor modes in effect:

show-paren-mode: t

display-time-mode: t

tooltip-mode: t

mouse-wheel-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-encryption-mode: t

auto-compression-mode: t

column-number-mode: t

line-number-mode: t

transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:

s-v <help-echo> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<triple-wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

s-= s-= s-= <help-echo> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up>

<wheel-up> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<triple-wheel-up> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>

<drag-mouse-1> <escape> x b <return> <down-mouse-1>

<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <escape>

x b <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 1 . SPC <down-mouse-1>

<mouse-1> 2 . SPC <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>

<drag-mouse-1> <backspace> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>

<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <escape>

x b <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 3 . SPC <down-mouse-1>

<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <escape>

x b <return> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down>

<triple-wheel-down> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>

<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>

<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> . s-a s-c <wheel-up> s-v <return>

C-SPC <escape> > C-w <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <wheel-down> <wheel-down>

<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <escape> x w r a p <tab> <backspace>

<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>

<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> C-g

C-h C-a C-g <return> C-x b <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>

C-h C-a C-h C-a <return> C-b C-g C-x b <return> C-h

a C-g C-c C-h C-x C-g C-g C-g <help-echo> <help-echo>

<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x 0 <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>

<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

C-h C-a <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo>

C-g C-b C-g C-z C-x b <return> C-x 1 C-h a r e g i

o n <return> <help-echo> <wheel-down> <double-wheel-down>

<triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down>

<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <wheel-up>

<double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down>

<triple-wheel-down> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up>

<wheel-up> <double-wheel-up> <triple-wheel-up> <wheel-down>

<double-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down>

<triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> <wheel-down>

<double-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down>

<triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down>

<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up>

<wheel-down> <double-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down>

<triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down> <triple-wheel-down>

<wheel-up> <wheel-up> <wheel-up> C-h a w r a p <return>

C-x 0 <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-repor

Recent messages:

call-interactively: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer

For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. [2 times]

Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *About GNU Emacs*>

Quit [2 times]

Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.

Quit [2 times]

byte-code: Beginning of buffer [4 times]

For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Quit [2 times]

Type C-x 1 to remove help window.

byte-code: End of buffer [3 times]

Load-path shadows:

None found.

Features:

(shadow sort mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec

password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231

rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc

time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock sha1

hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug help-mode view apropos paren

cus-start cus-load time tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type

mwheel ns-win easymenu tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode

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

loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay

md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget

hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process ns multi-tty

emacs)

From:	Mark A . Mandel
Subject:	bug#12886: 23.2; wrong message for "apropos"
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:14:04 -0500