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Re: In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string?...


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string?...
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:08:31 +0200

> From: Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:57:29 -0400
> 
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> >> In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string?...
> >> ESC-s didn't work !
> 
> > ESC-s or M-s do work for me.  What "didn't work" for you, exactly?
> 
> Wrong type argument: listp, 40

Right after typing ESC-s, or after you typed some regexp at its
prompt?  If the latter, what did you type at the prompt?

> a) Any idea what that means?... b) why did it appear?

Set debug-on-error to a non-nil value and see what's in the backtrace.

Oh, and make sure ESC-s indeed invokes rmail-search and not something
else (use "C-h c" to see the binding).



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