* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
@ 2012-02-18 19:51 Drew Adams
2012-02-18 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-18 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2012-02-18 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 10840
I have Cygwin installed (a rather old version; dunno which one or how to
tell). I load `cygwin-mount.el', then `setup-cygwin.el', both of which
are available on EmacsWiki:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/cygwin-mount.el
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/setup-cygwin.el
emacs -Q
M-x man RET
Hitting TAB (with no minibuffer input) completes the empty input to the
two chars `^:'. Thereafter I can do nothing with that. Whether I type
anything after the `^:' or not, TAB just completes to `^:'.
If I instead first type `l' (as in `ls') and then hit TAB, I get [No
match]. It doesn't seem to matter what I type in the minibuffer: TAB
always says [No match].
(I can of course enter a complete command name, such as `ls' and hit
RET. `man' then works correctly. It is only the UNIX command-name
completion that is seemingly broken.
Am I missing something? I tried to debug this a bit but wasn't
successful in following what was happening. Please advise. Thx.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2012-02-15 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
`configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2012-02-18 19:51 bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Drew Adams
@ 2012-02-18 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-18 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2012-02-18 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 10840
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:51:23 -0800
>
> emacs -Q
>
> M-x man RET
>
> Hitting TAB (with no minibuffer input) completes the empty input to the
> two chars `^:'. Thereafter I can do nothing with that. Whether I type
> anything after the `^:' or not, TAB just completes to `^:'.
man.el invokes the `man' command with "^" concatenated to whatever you
typed. So the question becomes what does your port of `man' produce
if you invoke it from the shell command line like this:
man ^
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2012-02-18 19:51 bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Drew Adams
2012-02-18 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2012-02-18 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-18 20:28 ` Drew Adams
1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2012-02-18 20:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 10840
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:51:23 -0800
>
> emacs -Q
>
> M-x man RET
>
> Hitting TAB (with no minibuffer input) completes the empty input to the
> two chars `^:'. Thereafter I can do nothing with that. Whether I type
> anything after the `^:' or not, TAB just completes to `^:'.
man.el invokes the `man' command with "^" concatenated to whatever you
typed. So the question becomes what does your port of `man' produce
if you invoke it from the shell command line like this:
man -k ^
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2012-02-18 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2012-02-18 20:28 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-19 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2012-02-18 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Eli Zaretskii'; +Cc: 10840
> man.el invokes the `man' command with "^" concatenated to whatever you
> typed. So the question becomes what does your port of `man' produce
> if you invoke it from the shell command line like this:
>
> man -k ^
You also sent a mail saying to try `man ^', i.e., without `-k'. I tried both.
$ man -k ^
^: nothing appropriate
$ man ^
No manual entry for ^
Dunno whether that helps. As I said, if I type nothing in the minibuffer and
then hit TAB it completes to `^:' with no further completion available. If I
instead type something (e.g. `l') and then hit TAB I get the message `[No
match]'.
The shell is bash. (And "man ls RET" works fine at the bash prompt.)
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2012-02-18 20:28 ` Drew Adams
@ 2012-02-19 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-17 0:14 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2012-02-19 4:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 10840
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <10840@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:28:04 -0800
>
> $ man -k ^
> ^: nothing appropriate
I guess your `man' doesn't support this option, or maybe it needs for
you to create the apropos database. In any case, "M-x man" should
handle this kind of output gracefully, which it evidently doesn't.
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2012-02-19 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2012-09-17 0:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 15:06 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2012-09-17 0:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Eli Zaretskii'; +Cc: 10840
> > $ man -k ^
> > ^: nothing appropriate
>
> I guess your `man' doesn't support this option, or maybe it needs for
> you to create the apropos database. In any case, "M-x man" should
> handle this kind of output gracefully, which it evidently doesn't.
ping
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2012-09-17 0:14 ` Drew Adams
@ 2012-12-15 15:06 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-21 18:11 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Jenkner @ 2012-12-15 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 10840
On Mon, Sep 17 2012, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > $ man -k ^
>> > ^: nothing appropriate
>>
>> I guess your `man' doesn't support this option, or maybe it needs for
>> you to create the apropos database. In any case, "M-x man" should
>> handle this kind of output gracefully, which it evidently doesn't.
>
> ping
As Eli suggested, the question is if your man program supports the `-k'
option.
If you don't have a `whatis' database you should have a `makewhatis' or
a `mandb' program to generate it.
Then, please try
$ man -k ls
What do you get then? Does one of
$ apropos ls
or
$ whatis ls
work?
If there's no joy, please post the output of
$ man -h
$ man --help
$ man --version
Wolfgang
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2012-12-15 15:06 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
@ 2012-12-21 18:11 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-02-09 5:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Jenkner @ 2012-12-21 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 10840
On Sat, Dec 15 2012, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17 2012, Drew Adams wrote:
>
>>> > $ man -k ^
>>> > ^: nothing appropriate
>>>
>>> I guess your `man' doesn't support this option, or maybe it needs for
>>> you to create the apropos database. In any case, "M-x man" should
>>> handle this kind of output gracefully, which it evidently doesn't.
>>
>> ping
>
> As Eli suggested, the question is if your man program supports the `-k'
> option.
>
> If you don't have a `whatis' database you should have a `makewhatis' or
> a `mandb' program to generate it.
I suspect you have the man program from
http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
In this case, essentially, "man -k ^" ends up calling "apropos ^", which
gives this output if it can't find any `whatis' database file or all
those files are empty.
Otherwise, "man -k ^" works fine, even in the 1999 vintage man-1.5g.
Also, `apropos' is a shell script, so you can easily inspect it and
debug your `man' installation.
> Hitting TAB (with no minibuffer input) completes the empty input to the
> two chars `^:'. Thereafter I can do nothing with that. Whether I type
> anything after the `^:' or not, TAB just completes to `^:'.
The empty string is a prefix of "^:",
> If I instead first type `l' (as in `ls') and then hit TAB, I get [No
> match]. It doesn't seem to matter what I type in the minibuffer: TAB
> always says [No match].
but "l" is not a prefix of "^l:".
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2012-12-21 18:11 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
@ 2014-02-09 5:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-11 14:38 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2014-02-09 5:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfgang Jenkner; +Cc: 10840
Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes:
> I suspect you have the man program from
>
> http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
>
> In this case, essentially, "man -k ^" ends up calling "apropos ^", which
> gives this output if it can't find any `whatis' database file or all
> those files are empty.
>
> Otherwise, "man -k ^" works fine, even in the 1999 vintage man-1.5g.
>
> Also, `apropos' is a shell script, so you can easily inspect it and
> debug your `man' installation.
This doesn't seem to be an Emacs bug, then. Closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/
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* bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
2014-02-09 5:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2014-02-11 14:38 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2014-02-11 14:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen, Wolfgang Jenkner; +Cc: 10840
> This doesn't seem to be an Emacs bug, then. Closing.
Hm, I don't see why it follows from what Eli said that there is
no Emacs bug here. Here is what he said:
I guess your `man' doesn't support this option, or maybe it
needs for you to create the apropos database.
In any case, "M-x man" should handle this kind of output gracefully,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
which it evidently doesn't.
Sounds like an Emacs bug, to me.
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