From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, rfrancoise@debian.org,
man-db@packages.debian.org, 5578@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5578: 23.1.92; M-x man should consider $MANPATH when making completions
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:45:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100215084523.GA4484@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zl3bmssh.fsf@jidanni.org>
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:06:06AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> >>>>> "CW" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> CW> Run mandb as your ordinary user
> OK, I found that works and am closing the bug. Maybe that should be
> documented in emacs as at least working on Debian.
The bug title here is incorrect anyway; there's nothing Emacs is doing
that would avoid honouring $MANPATH, and that was never related to your
problem. This isn't Debian-specific.
> (I discovered it makes files inside my private man tree... the mandb page
> perhaps isn't that clear about that.)
I don't think it needs to be. It's creating an index for your private
manual hierarchy; either (a) it should be obvious that this would live
within your private manual hierarchy, since where else would it go or
(b) you should not need to care. :-)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-15 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-13 23:48 bug#5578: 23.1.92; M-x man should consider $MANPATH when making completions jidanni
2010-02-14 1:29 ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-14 6:12 ` jidanni
2010-02-14 8:57 ` Colin Watson
2010-02-14 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-15 8:41 ` Colin Watson
2010-02-14 21:06 ` jidanni
2010-02-15 8:45 ` Colin Watson [this message]
2010-02-15 14:47 ` jidanni
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