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: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:59:31 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100110235929.GA1956@Clio> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ocl197gt.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why is the use-case of having man pages but not man(1) so important
> that it's worth catering to?
I was merely being pedantic re "cannot know" versus "not worth the
effort". The original case arose because I forgot what system I was
on and ran man instead of woman, and the error briefly confused me.
A peonland solution would simply be to put in my .emacs:
(unless (executable-find "man")
(defalias 'man 'woman))
> Maybe it would be good enough to change
>
> (error "Can't find the %s manpage" args)
> into
> (error "Can't find the %s manpage or no man(1)" args)
Yup, that'd be fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-10 23:59 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
2010-01-10 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-10 23:59 ` Trent W. Buck [this message]
2010-01-11 0:52 ` Juri Linkov
2010-01-11 5:34 ` Drew Adams
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