From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:00:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rtpo460.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v9r1tu0p.fsf@zoho.eu> (message from Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:42:46 +0100)
> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:42:46 +0100
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> What switches are supported?
Any switches supported by the 'man' command you have installed, I
think.
> I mean except for -a, which is the only one
> mentioned, and doesn't work.
It does work: it produces all of the man pages by that name, in all of
the sections. You just need to go from one to the other with M-n and
M-p, as "C-h m" tells you.
> What is the 'man' program refered to?
The one you have installed. man.el just invokes the first one it
finds on PATH.
> The Unix man(1) is a pager.
No, 'man' is not a pager. It is a program that formats and displays
manual pages. A pager is a program like 'more' or 'less'. At least
that's what I would call a "pager".
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-30 5:22 does (setq Man-switches "-a") work? Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-30 10:25 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-30 10:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-30 12:42 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 12:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-30 14:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 16:37 ` Omar Polo
2019-11-30 18:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 14:27 ` Perry Smith
2019-11-30 14:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 15:08 ` Perry Smith
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