* Re: dash on manpage stops ffap
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@ 2003-01-16 16:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2003-01-16 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> On the apt.conf man page, it was not the // mistake that stopped
> emacs' ffap from finding the file. It was the dash stuff:
> In general the sample configuration file in /usr/share/doc/apt//exam-
> ples/apt.conf /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz is a good
Does your system's man command output the hyphenated path name? If so, I don't
see how Emacs could distinguish between a file name that ends with a dash at the
end of a line and one that has been erroneously hyphenated and broken across the
newline. Please complain to the author of th man page.
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* dash on manpage stops ffap
@ 2003-01-15 22:02 Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-01-15 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: apt
On the apt.conf man page, it was not the // mistake that stopped
emacs' ffap from finding the file. It was the dash stuff:
In general the sample configuration file in /usr/share/doc/apt//exam-
ples/apt.conf /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz is a good
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