From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: 13160@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:35:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ip84qpu8.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sj78fi0w.fsf@blah.blah> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:19:59 +1100")
On Fri, Dec 14 2012, Kevin Ryde wrote:
>> +(defvar Man-keyword-completion-twiddle
>> + (cond
>> + ;; man-db-* or man-*.
>> + ((memq system-type '(gnu gnu/linux gnu/kfreebsd))
>> + "^")
>> + (t
>> + ""))
>
> You'd much prefer to avoid that. For a start `system-type' is probably
> unreliable to distinguish the flavour of man. The outputs look close
> enough / different enough for a single parse/split/etc.
It's not used for parsing, it's only prepended to the search string
passed to `man -k'. And I'd happily ditch it since, as the doc string
indicates, it's not really necessary, but I'm not sure about performance
implications.
Thanks for the comments,
Wolfgang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-14 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-12 19:16 bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-12 19:31 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-12 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-14 21:19 ` Kevin Ryde
2012-12-14 21:35 ` Wolfgang Jenkner [this message]
2012-12-15 0:59 ` Kevin Ryde
2012-12-16 18:07 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-22 15:27 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-22 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-22 17:58 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-23 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-23 19:49 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-23 20:59 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-24 0:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-06 19:27 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-24 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-24 2:23 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-24 4:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-06 19:48 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2013-01-10 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-30 0:10 ` Kevin Ryde
2012-12-23 0:16 ` Kevin Ryde
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