From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#3717: M-x man completion
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:01:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87einl54kb.fsf@blah.blah> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aay94ouh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:27 +0200")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
> What man error?
M-x man
lib (
Ret
=> error in process sentinel: *Man lib (*: process exited abnormally with code 2
I think "(" goes onto the command line and the shell doesn't like it.
(Only balanced parens for the section getting transformed to "man 1 lib"
etc within M-x man.)
> I think it's bad to hide the fact that a manual name is ambiguous and
> that the user have to select the necessary section instead of using an
> arbitrary default section.
Perhaps that could be an option, but if so I think I'd try to bring up a
display-completion-list thingie, to emphasise you're being asked to
choose, since the incomplete "lib (" is no good.
> For manual names that belong only to one section, removing the section
> name would be ok.
Yep, that's what I've got, to declutter.
> when the first character
> of the completion is a digit, then completions are performed on the
> format "3erl lib". Otherwise, completions are performed on the
> format "lib (3erl)".
Yes. There's an occasional program name starting with a digit, but you
can type "3 " or whatever with the space to get past that -- in fact if
you want a specific section I think that's a pretty natural thing to
type.
> In your first message to bug#3717, you named them "feeping creatures" :-)
You're not going to hold me to anything I said so long ago are you! :-)
The perl searching for the default page name at point creeps a bit, but
I've found it very helpful, and haven't had a better idea for where to
tie it in.
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> "lib" is a valid name to pass to man, so completion should provide it.
That was my rationale.
> After all, M-x man
> can show *all* the pages found, so the choice of section can be
> made later.
I didn't think of that, but yes.
> Yes, a better way to do it would be to consider "3erl " "as
> a directory", i.e. the completion table should recognize it and set
> a "boundary" right there. It doesn't need to provide completion for the
> section names.
I haven't understood the boundaries thing. Is it as simple as making a
space or "(" a boundary point?
> You could also do it via M-x man RET 3erl C-a TAB since a * is
> implicitly added at point.
You've got to be smarter than me to think of that :). My main idea is
that you can type M-x man "2 chmod", and likewise on the man command
line, so completion should help you with that typing.
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87fx7x72qd.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
2009-06-29 20:48 ` bug#3717: M-x man completion jidanni
2009-06-29 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-30 7:50 ` Sven Joachim
[not found] ` <87ab3pfqj0.fsf@jidanni.org>
2009-11-24 17:11 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-24 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-25 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 21:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-25 23:18 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 9:28 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-26 22:09 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-27 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 22:53 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-05 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-11 22:43 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-12 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-25 23:04 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 9:28 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-26 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-02 22:41 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-03 0:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 22:50 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-05 5:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 23:12 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-07 2:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 22:01 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2009-11-26 22:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-26 23:15 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-27 9:01 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-28 17:56 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-28 20:14 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-28 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-15 6:18 ` jidanni
2009-12-15 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-16 0:42 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-16 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-16 21:25 ` Kevin Ryde
[not found] ` <87ljh29ypb.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
[not found] ` <87r5qt5p52.fsf@blah.blah>
2009-12-17 23:35 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-18 1:00 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 23:34 ` jidanni
2009-11-27 0:24 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-27 9:04 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-25 23:11 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 21:12 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-16 21:40 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-12-16 21:44 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-24 22:58 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-24 23:45 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-25 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-25 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 22:53 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-26 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-26 21:36 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-27 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-28 19:49 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-28 22:59 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-29 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-30 22:38 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-11-29 16:15 ` bug#3717: marked as done (M-x man completion) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-08-06 1:47 ` bug#4056: 23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names jidanni
2009-11-29 16:15 ` bug#4056: marked as done (23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names) Emacs bug Tracking System
2010-01-23 22:04 ` bug#4056: completion--some: Searching for program: no such file or directory, LC_CTYPE=C man jidanni
2010-02-08 19:07 ` bug#4056: " jidanni
2010-02-09 0:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-02-11 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-09 0:51 ` jidanni
2010-02-11 21:42 ` jidanni
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