From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Watson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5578: 23.1.92; M-x man should consider $MANPATH when making completions Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:45:25 +0000 Message-ID: <20100215084523.GA4484@riva.ucam.org> References: <20100214085721.GX4484@riva.ucam.org> <87zl3bmssh.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266223974 13982 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2010 08:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, rfrancoise@debian.org, man-db@packages.debian.org, 5578@debbugs.gnu.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 15 09:52:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NgwhD-0007KU-JB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:52:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40892 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NgwhC-0007XA-Sq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngwh8-0007X5-Fo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34812 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngwh7-0007Wx-2c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:52:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngwh6-0003Jm-1C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33719) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngwh5-0003Jg-UO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngwag-00078T-Ek; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:46:02 -0500 X-Loop: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-From: Colin Watson Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5578 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5578-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5578.126622353427412 (code B ref 5578); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5578) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Feb 2010 08:45:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NgwaE-000785-0n for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:45:34 -0500 Original-Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.142]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NgwaC-00077x-63 for 5578@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [82.69.40.219] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngwa6-0007R5-9x; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:45:26 +0000 Original-Received: from cjwatson by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ngwa5-0000Qz-00; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:45:25 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zl3bmssh.fsf@jidanni.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [82.69.40.219] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:46:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35122 Archived-At: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:06:06AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > >>>>> "CW" == Colin Watson writes: > CW> Run mandb as your ordinary user > OK, I found that works and am closing the bug. Maybe that should be > documented in emacs as at least working on Debian. The bug title here is incorrect anyway; there's nothing Emacs is doing that would avoid honouring $MANPATH, and that was never related to your problem. This isn't Debian-specific. > (I discovered it makes files inside my private man tree... the mandb page > perhaps isn't that clear about that.) I don't think it needs to be. It's creating an index for your private manual hierarchy; either (a) it should be obvious that this would live within your private manual hierarchy, since where else would it go or (b) you should not need to care. :-) -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]