From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: WoMan generates different result from man? Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:08:44 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8738sx6bxf.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87obbnh19g.fsf@gmail.com> <87wqqb5p2m.wl%lists@groll.co.za> <87obbnhxhu.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <878v2q7i46.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370366616 20003 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2013 17:23:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 17:23:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 04 19:23:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UjuxN-0003Jz-RF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:23:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UjuxN-0004F3-E3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:23:37 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.187.115 with SMTP id fr19mr1053490wic.4.1370365761362; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:09:21 -0700 (PDT) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.116.97 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!lg1no2873001wic.0!news-out.google.com!fw11ni1606wic.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:naKYz9iLrYTDodsrEHb9hy+0gNg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199032 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:23:21 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91298 Archived-At: Hongxu Chen writes: > There is another problem: when using `man', it would firstly > catch the symbol/word at point by default. When there is NO > manpage for this symbol, it still displays as a candidate (I am > using ido-ubiquitous and don't know the behavior in other > cases). And when I hit RET, it would report like this: > > error in process sentinel: user-error: Can't find the time_t > manpage > > This is annoying. But `woman' would ignore the symbol where the > cursor locates (it would not display `time_t' in this case) and > I am informed ahead that I cannot get the manpage of this > symbol. > > Also, the matching rule is confusing(possibly only for ido), for > instance, when I run `M-x man RET git', `git' does not appear at > the front of all candidates until I additionally add `(1)' > (hence I have to type the whole word `git(1)'), which is a bit > inconvenient. OK, I'm sorry, I can't help you because nothing of this is even the slightest familiar to me. I just `M-x man' and I've never had any problems. Probably, some other guy on the list can help you. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573