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Hi

It's been a while since I wrote lisp ...

What I need to do is to use the existing man.el but a different man 
program. The situation is complicated since the program I want to use 
has a man subcommand:

	acme man ...

What I want to do is to create a variation of the man command that would 
    invoke acme with the first argument man and the rest provided by the 
user as in the original man command. I want to use all the stuff 
provided in the man.el.

I could copy man.el and edit it, but I will wait for a few days hoping 
someone will point to a more elegant solution.


Yuri.