From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: man page prompter thinks "|" is legitimate Date: 16 Oct 2002 05:28:00 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y98z5r4v.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034723338 4379 80.91.224.249 (15 Oct 2002 23:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 181ao5-00018Q-00 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:08:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 181aoe-0002jb-00; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 181ao4-0001WB-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 181ao1-0001QR-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from msr30.hinet.net ([168.95.4.130] helo=msr.hinet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 181ao0-0001Je-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from debian (61-227-44-96.HINET-IP.hinet.net [61.227.44.96]) by msr.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA01587 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:08:49 +0800 (CST) Original-Received: from jidanni by debian with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 181ZEO-0000ZZ-00 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 05:28:00 +0800 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3700 Gentlemen, type s o r t | u n i q x m a n 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? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780