[5420] in SIPB bug reports
add sipb causes emacs19 BUG!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (holt@MIT.EDU)
Sat Jun 3 20:21:52 1995
From: holt@MIT.EDU
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1995 20:21:42 EDT
Both me and a friend of mine have discovered this painful bug. It applies to
both SUN and DEC and ???
Quite simply, the emacs19 commands "C-h C-f" and "C-h C-k" break as soon as
you "add sipb" to your machine. We are able to temporarily restore these
important commands (searching the emacs 'info' tree) by doing "detach sipb".
Please Help!
-Adam Holt
NOTE we turned ALL our customizations off (even removing .emacs) yet the bug
persists as described above. Another "antidote" we discovered is to launch
emacs with "emacs19 -q -l ~/.emacs &". We haven't the darndest idea why
that works and the (supposedly) equivalent "emacs19 &" is buggy.
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The bug manifests itself as follows:
Emacs does not complete the search, failing with one of 2 error msg's
that it displays in the minibuffer. Usually it's the following:
Can't find emacs-18 or any compressed version of it!
Apparently, something bad bad bad appears in the path as soon as you "add sipb"
