From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work? Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:42:46 +0100 Message-ID: <86v9r1tu0p.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86r21qvsyd.fsf@zoho.eu> <83lfrxomrd.fsf@gnu.org> <865zj1wti9.fsf@zoho.eu> <83d0d9odjb.fsf@gnu.org> <86r21pve8h.fsf@zoho.eu> <834kylo8r9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="241696"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 30 13:43:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ib25k-0010lc-Ho for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:43:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40038 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ib25j-0006Cr-DI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 07:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ib25W-0006Cl-3D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 07:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ib25U-0008R7-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 07:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:38788 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ib25U-0008Pl-MD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 07:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ib25S-0010NX-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:42:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:ED52gQtDouOpoe+eDqhcvtELO6w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121959 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> C-h v Man-switches RET: >> >> Man-switches is a variable defined in >> ‘man.el’. Its value is "-a" Original value >> was "" >> >> Documentation: Switches passed to the man >> command, as a single string. For example, >> the -a switch lets you see all the manpages >> for a specified subject, if your ‘man’ >> program supports it. > > Which sounds absolutely fine to me (and it > says nothing about any pager). What switches are supported? I mean except for -a, which is the only one mentioned, and doesn't work. What is the 'man' program refered to? The Unix man(1) is a pager. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal