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Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:48:58 +0000 Original-Received: by smtp408.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (VZM Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 960095f8482aa69372776f2cbcf6df35; Mon, 08 Mar 2021 15:48:53 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <83czw9somb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:31:56 +0200") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.17872 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo Apache-HttpAsyncClient/4.1.4 (Java/11.0.9.1) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:201846 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Our solution to this is "C-h S". Did you try it? You can extend its > database if the default lacks something you need. C-h S only searches Info pages. I think this feature request is more about improving the default that M-x man offers, to consider more things than just the text around point. I can see its usefulness, as a lot of Unix tools provide special man pages for its configuration files. Another potential use case is a user visiting a .gitconfig file, where M-x man could suggest "git-config(1)" by default. Similarly for .gitattributes and "gitattributes(5)". As it's almost impossible to have all that knowledge in Emacs core, I see it as a new extensibilty point for users. What are the downsides you see in the local variable approach?