Re: Dired 7.5 bug: it core-dumps when dired-apropos is run

Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:32:47 +0100


Sandy writes:

>> i hit the 'a' key in dired, the minibuffer prompts for a regexp, i enter something,
>> press RET, ciao... (i.e., xemacs dumps core).

> This is an XEmacs bug.  I'm not sure what bug, but the problem isn't
> with dired.  A core dump is always a bug in Emacs.  No lisp code
> should ever cause Emacs to dump core.

> Michael or Andy, do you get this?

Unfortunately, yes, under XEmacs 19.11.

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