* ESC x man and "man -k"
@ 2010-01-20 5:07 Joseph Brenner
2010-01-20 6:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Joseph Brenner @ 2010-01-20 5:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
I've always liked the man feature:
man -k <search_term>
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 <search_term>
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?
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* Re: ESC x man and "man -k"
2010-01-20 5:07 ESC x man and "man -k" Joseph Brenner
@ 2010-01-20 6:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-01-20 6:55 ` ESC x man and "man -k" (possible bug?) tomas
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2010-01-20 6:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Joseph Brenner wrote:
> I've always liked the man feature:
> man -k <search_term>
> 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 <search_term>
>
> 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
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* Re: ESC x man and "man -k" (possible bug?)
2010-01-20 5:07 ESC x man and "man -k" Joseph Brenner
2010-01-20 6:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
@ 2010-01-20 6:55 ` tomas
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From: tomas @ 2010-01-20 6:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Joseph Brenner; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:07:59PM -0800, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
> I've always liked the man feature:
> man -k <search_term>
> 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 <search_term>
>
> 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?
I guess it's an unwanted interaction with some supposed-to-be-friendly
argument entry mechanism. Try entering M-<space> (i.e. ALT-<space> or
ESC-<space> [1] instead of just <space>) after the "-k".
Regards
- --------
[1] Ah, yes... my window manager helpfully pops up something I'll never
use on ALT-<space>. Sigh.
- -- tomás
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* Re: ESC x man and "man -k"
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@ 2010-01-22 9:11 ` Joseph Brenner
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From: Joseph Brenner @ 2010-01-22 9:11 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:
> Joseph Brenner wrote:
>> I've always liked the man feature:
>> man -k <search_term>
>> 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 <search_term>
>>
>> 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.
Yes, that seems to work... but I decided I might as well do it
like this:
(defun man-apropos-search (search-term)
"Do a keyword search of man pages, cf. 'man -k SEARCH-TERM'."
(interactive "ssearch term for man pages: ")
(man (concat "-k " search-term)))
(global-set-key "\M-om" 'man-apropos-search)
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