From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3717: M-x man completion
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:47:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ws1cmk1f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqcx55or.fsf@blah.blah>
> From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
> Cc: 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:36:52 +1100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > It could be, but it also isn't universally available, especially if
> > you are on a non-Posix platform.
>
> I see V7 doesn't have either :-)
>
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/index.html
>
> but that -k is in posix (and specified as an ERE regexp, answering a
> comment Stefan put),
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/man.html
Emacs doesn't (and shouldn't, IMO) require Posix to work well.
> > Ideally, `man' should test what's available, like `grep' does, and if
> > nothing is, simply not provide this feature.
>
> I'd be open to ideas for my code at least, as long as it's not merely
> defunct cp/m derivatives where there's a potential problem :).
I'm not sure I understand the remark, but how about searching MANPATH
directories ourselves? That would be much more portable, I think.
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[not found] <87fx7x72qd.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
2009-06-29 20:48 ` bug#3717: M-x man completion jidanni
2009-06-29 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-30 7:50 ` Sven Joachim
[not found] ` <87ab3pfqj0.fsf@jidanni.org>
2009-11-24 17:11 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-24 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-25 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 21:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-25 23:18 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 9:28 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-26 22:09 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-27 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 22:53 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-05 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-11 22:43 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-12 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-25 23:04 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 9:28 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-26 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-02 22:41 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-03 0:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 22:50 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-05 5:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 23:12 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-07 2:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 22:01 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 22:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-26 23:15 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-27 9:01 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-28 17:56 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-28 20:14 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-28 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-15 6:18 ` jidanni
2009-12-15 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-16 0:42 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-16 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-16 21:25 ` Kevin Ryde
[not found] ` <87ljh29ypb.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
[not found] ` <87r5qt5p52.fsf@blah.blah>
2009-12-17 23:35 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-18 1:00 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 23:34 ` jidanni
2009-11-27 0:24 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-27 9:04 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-25 23:11 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 21:12 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-16 21:40 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-16 21:44 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-24 22:58 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-24 23:45 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-25 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-25 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 22:53 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-26 21:36 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-27 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-11-28 19:49 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-28 22:59 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-29 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-30 22:38 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-29 16:15 ` bug#3717: marked as done (M-x man completion) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-08-06 1:47 ` bug#4056: 23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names jidanni
2009-11-29 16:15 ` bug#4056: marked as done (23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names) Emacs bug Tracking System
2010-01-23 22:04 ` bug#4056: completion--some: Searching for program: no such file or directory, LC_CTYPE=C man jidanni
2010-02-08 19:07 ` bug#4056: " jidanni
2010-02-09 0:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-02-11 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-09 0:51 ` jidanni
2010-02-11 21:42 ` jidanni
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