From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3717: M-x man completion Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:19:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83hbrr7dqf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hbsepfst.fsf@blah.blah> <87hbrsn4jf.fsf@jidanni.org> <87hbrrpwou.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260937673 349 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2009 04:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:27:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, user42@zip.com.au, jidanni@jidanni.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 05:27:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NKlUE-0007Ky-9x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:27:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53702 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKlUD-0001vd-OY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKlU9-0001v8-4v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKlU4-0001tl-Gi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40262 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKlU4-0001ti-9B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:50096) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKlU3-0002Re-Ml for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nBG4RTCW005938; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:27:29 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBG4P5xd005617; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:25:05 -0800 Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:25:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:25:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3717 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3717-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3717.12609370725036 (code B ref 3717); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:25:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3717) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 16 Dec 2009 04:17:52 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (mtaout20.012.net.il [80.179.55.166]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nBG4HoiP005033 for <3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:17:51 -0800 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KUQ00B009153100@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:16:58 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.160.137]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KUQ00ASX9896D40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:16:58 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87hbrrpwou.fsf@mail.jurta.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:36 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:33624 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, jidanni@jidanni.org, user42@zip.com.au > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:42:17 +0200 > > I see that `Man-getpage-in-background' calls `start-process' (with > a shell command name prepended) to run "man", but `Man-completion-table' > calls `call-process' (without a shell command prepended) to run "man -k". > That's the difference. > > Shouldn't `Man-completion-table' prepend a shell command name to not fail > when `manual-program' is "LC_CTYPE=C man"? Isn't it easier just to do this > than to declare it as an abuse? I have nothing against calling `man' through the shell in all cases, but if we do that, we need to rename the variable to something like `man-shell-command' and document it as a "shell command that produces manual pages".