From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Van Ly <van.ly@sdf.org>
Cc: 53590@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53590: 28.0.91; icompletion-vertical-mode gets stuck on 'M-x man RET awk'
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:15:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czkbdh7l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415f2f9-864d-3320-2a3e-694070df9eb@SDF.ORG> (message from Van Ly on Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:53:16 +0000 (UTC))
> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:53:16 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Van Ly <van.ly@sdf.org>
> cc: 53590@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I cannot reproduce this: it works for me as expected. Are you sure
> > "M-x man" on your system is capable of completion in the default
> > completion mode in "emacs -Q"? If not, maybe your man-db database is
> > missing or outdated?
> >
>
> On NetBSD the output from apropos is different in format to the one
> on GNU/Linux. Could that be why the behavior is stuck?
Could be, but why are you looking at "apropos"? AFAIU, man.el uses
"man -k", and there are various attempts to adapt to some systems, see
Man-man-k-use-anchor. Maybe NetBSD needs to be handled like kfreebsd?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-28 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-27 22:36 bug#53590: 28.0.91; icompletion-vertical-mode gets stuck on 'M-x man RET awk' Van Ly
2022-01-28 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-28 14:53 ` Van Ly
2022-01-28 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-28 19:23 ` Van Ly
2022-01-28 19:52 ` Van Ly
2022-01-28 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-28 21:22 ` Van Ly
2022-01-29 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-29 19:10 ` Van Ly
2022-01-29 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-29 20:20 ` Van Ly
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