bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

[Reuben Thomas]

If I say, for example, M-x -l foo.1 RET, then I get the minibuffer message:

-l foo.1 man page formatted

whereas I would expect something more like

foo.1 man page formatted

or ideally

foo man page formatted


In GNU Emacs 23.2.91.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0)
 of 2011-01-13 on canta
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000
Important settings:
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  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
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  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Man

Minor modes in effect:
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Recent input:
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-w C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-SPC C-n C-n 
C-g C-s e m p t y C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-SPC C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-w C-x C-s C-x 
b * s h C-g M-x m a n - m o d e <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> p a g e - m o d e C-g M-x m 
a n <return> a t _ a l l o w . 5 <return> C-h f m a 
n <return> C-s a r g s C-s C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-e C-e C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b <return> C-s f i l 
e C-a C-x 1 C-x b <return> M-x m a n <return> <up> 
- l SPC <return> M-x r e p o r t b u g <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> - e m a c s - b u g <retur
n>

Recent messages:
error in process sentinel: Man-bgproc-sentinel: Can't find the at_allow.5 manpage
error in process sentinel: Can't find the at_allow.5 manpage
Type "q" to restore this window.
Mark saved where search started
uncompressing man.el.gz...done
Note: file is write protected
Mark saved where search started
Invoking man -l at_allow.5 in the background
Please wait: formatting the -l at_allow.5 man page...
-l at_allow.5 man page formatted

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bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

[Chong Yidong]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> If I say, for example, M-x -l foo.1 RET, then I get the minibuffer message:
>
> -l foo.1 man page formatted

What do you mean by `M-x -l foo.1 RET'?  I don't understand your bug
report.

bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

[Reuben Thomas]

On 3 April 2011 22:05, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>
>> If I say, for example, M-x -l foo.1 RET, then I get the minibuffer message:
>>
>> -l foo.1 man page formatted
>
> What do you mean by `M-x -l foo.1 RET'?  I don't understand your bug
> report.

Sorry, there is a missing bit, I meant:

M-x man RET -l foo.1 RET

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bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

[Chong Yidong]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> Sorry, there is a missing bit, I meant:
>
> M-x man RET -l foo.1 RET

There is no foo.1 manpage on my system, nor is there any apparent way to
type in the space in "-l foo.1", since the completion method doesn't
allow it.

Could you please provide a *precise* recipe?  Thanks.

bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

[Reuben Thomas]

On 10 April 2011 22:58, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>
>> Sorry, there is a missing bit, I meant:
>>
>> M-x man RET -l foo.1 RET
>
> There is no foo.1 manpage on my system, nor is there any apparent way to
> type in the space in "-l foo.1", since the completion method doesn't
> allow it.
>
> Could you please provide a *precise* recipe?  Thanks.

At first, I thought this was entirely my fault for not trying this in
emacs -Q. I have my Emacs set to allow SPC as a normal character in
the minibuffer, as I use plenty of files and directories whose names
contain spaces. I was trying to run the command

man -l foo.1

(the point being that of course there is no foo.1 man page, I am
trying to run man on the *file* foo.1).

This is not normally possible to type, as you've observed. However, it
is documented as valid in man's docstring, which says:

An explicit filename can be given too.  Use -l if it might
otherwise look like a page name.

    /my/file/name.1.gz
    -l somefile.1

So how am I supposed to type this?

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bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

[Stefan Monnier]

> There is no foo.1 manpage on my system, nor is there any apparent way to
> type in the space in "-l foo.1", since the completion method doesn't
> allow it.

You can definitely type C-q SPC to insert the space.


        Stefan

bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

[Reuben Thomas]

On 11 April 2011 03:22, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> There is no foo.1 manpage on my system, nor is there any apparent way to
>> type in the space in "-l foo.1", since the completion method doesn't
>> allow it.
>
> You can definitely type C-q SPC to insert the space.

OK, fine. So now you have the recipe!

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bug#7929: 23.2.91; M-x man retains command-line switches in minibuffer message

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> If I say, for example, M-x -l foo.1 RET, then I get the minibuffer message:
>
> -l foo.1 man page formatted
>
> whereas I would expect something more like
>
> foo.1 man page formatted
>
> or ideally
>
> foo man page formatted

I've now fixed this in Emacs 24.

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