From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Trent W. Buck" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage. Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:30:38 +1100 Message-ID: <20100110043036.GA3424@Clio> References: <4b48732e.e701be0a.4cf2.3e5c@mx.google.com> <83skaf8jgv.fsf@gnu.org> <20100110030538.GB2083@Clio> <83pr5i8v07.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: "Trent W. 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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).