remove documentation-string reading hack
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1If you think you may have found a bug in GNU Emacs, please read the
2Bugs section of the Emacs manual for advice on
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4(1) how to tell when to report a bug, and
5(2) how to write a useful bug report and what information it needs to have.
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7You can read the Bugs section of the manual from inside Emacs.
8Start Emacs, and press
9 C-h r (to view the Emacs manual)
10 m Bugs RET (to go to the section on Bugs)
11Or you can use the standalone Info program:
12 info emacs
13 m Bugs RET
14(Standalone Info is part of the Texinfo distribution, not part of the
15Emacs distribution.)
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17Printed copies of the Emacs manual can be purchased from the Free
18Software Foundation's online store at <http://shop.fsf.org/>.
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20If necessary, you can read the manual without an info program:
21
22 cat info/emacs* | more "+/^File: emacs.*, Node: Bugs,"
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25Please first check the file etc/PROBLEMS (e.g. with C-h C-p in Emacs) to
26make sure it isn't a known issue.