[293] in Athena Bugs
Re: emacs apropos command
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Sat Apr 30 18:46:20 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <mlight@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@garp.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 30 Apr 88 18:25:47 -0400.
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 88 18:45:44 EDT
>I was using the 5.5t release and I attemped to use the M-x apropos
>command. I hit return without typing anything. After a long time I
>received a "garbage collecting ...done" message and then a little later
>I was dropped out of the program losing some text. It appears that if
>you apropos nothing that this creats a huge search space that overloads
>something.
Hmm. looks like it's searching for the empty string (and, presumably,
finding lots of matches :>) I'll send this off to our emacs
maintainers; thanks for pointing the problem out to us.
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-- Henry Mensch / <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
-- Project Athena Quality Assurance
