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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 15:30:38 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100110043036.GA3424@Clio> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pr5i8v07.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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)
>
> It cannot know.

I don't understand why.  Surely it can (executable-find "man") or even
simply check the exit status (which will be 126 or 127 if man isn't
executable).






  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-10  4:30 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 ` bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage Trent W. Buck
     [not found]   ` <83pr5i8v07.fsf@gnu.org>
2010-01-10  4:30     ` Trent W. Buck [this message]
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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