From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ESC x man and "man -k" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:49:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87eillbbyo.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263970430 26597 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2010 06:53:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:53:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 20 07:53:43 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 1NXURi-000550-PY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:53:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXURj-0003O4-NR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXUOM-0002VT-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXUOG-0002Tp-LL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37943 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXUOG-0002Te-CN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:42749) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXUOF-0000OT-Tz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXUOF-00086i-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NXUOD-00049M-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:50:05 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:50:05 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:50:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: <87eillbbyo.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71315 Archived-At: Joseph Brenner wrote: > I've always liked the man feature: > man -k > Which does something like an "apropos" search on man pages. > > I used to use this feature often inside of emacs, first doing an > ESC x man > then at the prompt, entering: > -k > > Now, with a recent "cvs emacs" (soon to be called "bizarre emacs", I fear), > I find that I can't type the space after the -k. > > Is this supposed to be a feature? How can I fix it? It must be doing completion on the option letter. Type C-q SPC instead of just SPC. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA