From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ESC x man and "man -k" (possible bug?) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:55:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20100120065539.GA10949@tomas> References: <87eillbbyo.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263970701 27231 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2010 06:58:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:58:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Joseph Brenner Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 20 07:58:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NXUVv-0007D8-CQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:58:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57403 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXUVw-0004mL-DW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:58:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXUVO-0004m2-Pz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXUVJ-0004km-D2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:57:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40576 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXUVJ-0004ke-7o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:55565 helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXUVI-0001DA-Pp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5573A9006C; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:55:39 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87eillbbyo.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71316 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:07:59PM -0800, Joseph Brenner wrote: >=20 > I've always liked the man feature: > man -k > Which does something like an "apropos" search on man pages. >=20 > I used to use this feature often inside of emacs, first doing an > ESC x man > then at the prompt, entering: > -k >=20 > Now, with a recent "cvs emacs" (soon to be called "bizarre emacs", I fe= ar), > I find that I can't type the space after the -k.=20 >=20 > Is this supposed to be a feature? How can I fix it? I guess it's an unwanted interaction with some supposed-to-be-friendly argument entry mechanism. Try entering M- (i.e. ALT- or ESC- [1] instead of just ) after the "-k".=20 Regards - -------- [1] Ah, yes... my window manager helpfully pops up something I'll never use on ALT-. Sigh. - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLVqjrBcgs9XrR2kYRAh4pAJ9YL56KL1n0VbiqPoFw87X5P87oWQCfQ/PQ Eue01iIwoBVQqK6gDoXyjhg=3D =3DqDYp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----