From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 5347@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:05:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100110030538.GB2083@Clio> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83skaf8jgv.fsf@gnu.org>
reopen 5347
thanks
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was. M-x man
>> RET pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when
>> actually man(1) is what was missing. M-x woman RET pastebinint RET
>> works.
>
> "M-x man" works by invoking man(1), so it cannot work without one
> installed. "M-x woman" (WO == without) does not need man(1),
> therefore it still works.
I realize that. This issue is because M-x man RET foo RET reports
error in process sentinel: Can't find the foo manpage
but it should report something like
error in process sentinel: Can't find man(1)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-10 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <83skaf8jgv.fsf@gnu.org>
2010-01-09 12:14 ` bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage trentbuck
2010-01-09 14:03 ` bug#5347: marked as done (23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.) Emacs bug Tracking System
2010-01-10 4:06 ` Emacs bug Tracking System
2010-01-10 3:05 ` Trent W. Buck [this message]
[not found] ` <83pr5i8v07.fsf@gnu.org>
2010-01-10 4:30 ` bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage Trent W. Buck
2010-01-10 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-10 23:59 ` Trent W. Buck
2010-01-11 0:52 ` Juri Linkov
2010-01-11 5:34 ` Drew Adams
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