From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: 23647@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23647: 25.1.50; In man pages, links on hyphenated words don't work
Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 11:52:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1o52ntu.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
O. emacs -Q
1. Open a man page that has a link on a hyphenated word, e.g. on my
system: M-x man RET signal RET, put point on the word spanning lines
129-130, which is displayed as `sig-
nalfd(2)'.
2. Type RET (or click mouse-1 or mouse-2) on that link.
=> The error message "Can’t find the 2 sig-nalfd manpage" is displayed.
The following patch makes the link DTRT:
diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 5acf90b..5d4cacc 100644
--- a/lisp/man.el
+++ b/lisp/man.el
@@ -1430,8 +1430,14 @@ Man-bgproc-sentinel
(quit-restore-window
(get-buffer-window (current-buffer) t) 'kill)
(kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
- (message "Can't find the %s manpage"
- (Man-page-from-arguments args)))
+ ;; Entries hyphenated due to the window width
+ ;; won't be found in the man database, so remove
+ ;; the hyphenation and look again.
+ (if (string-match "-" args)
+ (let ((str (replace-match "" nil nil args)))
+ (Man-getpage-in-background str))
+ (message "Can't find the %s manpage"
+ (Man-page-from-arguments args))))
(if Man-fontify-manpage-flag
(message "%s man page formatted"
This is a long-standing bug (presumably since commit
162a12b1d7b1e985a8810bad24d068c825286f56 of Sep 13 2007), but although
the fix seems safe, I suppose it's too late for emacs-25. So if there
are no objections, should I commit it to master, or is it ok for the
upcoming release?
In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.19 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.15)
of 2016-05-28 built on rosalinde
Repository revision: 4ef0fc192b8a10625053dbb9376c814e68612eb6
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11601000
System Description: openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)
Configured using:
'configure --with-xwidgets 'CFLAGS=-Og -g3''
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY
GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK3 X11 XWIDGETS
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
next reply other threads:[~2016-05-29 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-29 9:52 Stephen Berman [this message]
2016-05-29 14:42 ` bug#23647: 25.1.50; In man pages, links on hyphenated words don't work Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-29 23:09 ` Stephen Berman
2016-05-30 0:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-30 13:55 ` Stephen Berman
2016-06-04 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-05 11:17 ` Stephen Berman
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