man page prompter thinks "|" is legitimate

man page prompter thinks "|" is legitimate

[Dan Jacobson]

Gentlemen, type s o r t | u n i q <escape> x m a n <return>
We are then prompted with
        Manual entry (default sort|uniq):
Why, that's ridiculous.  How could a potential man page have a | in
its name?  Can't the prompter be more intelligent in guessing what man
page we want?
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Man-follow-manual-reference and non-() references

[Dan Jacobson]

Now that we are fixing emacs' M-x man command, what should we do about
GRASS manual pages [e.g. mirror
http://grass.cis.sinica.edu.tw/gdp/online.html ]
They come with e.g.

SEE ALSO
       s.in.ascii

       s.out.shape

       s.out.ascii

       parser

which shows up with underlines, but Man-follow-manual-reference
doesn't know about them because they don't have "(1)" or whatever
appended, I bet.

Therefore, emacs should be "enhanced" to recognize them, or [I say:]
GRASS should get with the program, and add "(1)" (1G)? (1GR)? ... and
indeed, they do live in /man1/ etc. directories.
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