Re: Failure in describe-variable

[Henrik Enberg]

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> From: "RGB" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:09:42 -0600
> 
> >    Pick a variable in loaddefs.el e.g. warning-type-format.
> >    Do C-h v on it. The *Help* buffer says:
> >
> >    warning-type-format is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> >
> >    Its actually defined in warnings.el
> >    Clicking on the link gives:
> >
> >    Search failed: "Vwarning-type-format
> >
> > It does not fail for me.
> 
> It happens on my system.
> 
> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2005-11-17 on LD1
> X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'

I can reproduce it too, with "emacs -q" on:

GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.10) of
2005-11-18 on rocksteady

After it has failed for the first time (when clicking the link), it
fails directly upon doing C-h v warning-type-format RET