From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:52:07 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877hrpfmdt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4b48732e.e701be0a.4cf2.3e5c@mx.google.com> <83skaf8jgv.fsf@gnu.org> <20100110030538.GB2083@Clio> <83pr5i8v07.fsf@gnu.org> <20100110043036.GA3424@Clio> <83ocl197gt.fsf@gnu.org> <20100110235929.GA1956@Clio> Reply-To: Juri Linkov , 5347@debbugs.gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263176385 19427 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2010 02:19:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5347@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Trent W. 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Buck's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:59:31 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:56:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:34190 Archived-At: >> Maybe it would be good enough to change >> >> (error "Can't find the %s manpage" args) >> into >> (error "Can't find the %s manpage or no man(1)" args) > > Yup, that'd be fine. No, please don't change this. A new error message is confusing. It's not clear what "no man(1)" does mean. The current message is good for normal cases when the man executable and its filters are present on the system. Please either try to detect the fact that the man executable is missing and display a separate error message, or leave the current message unchanged. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/