From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work? Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:00:07 +0200 Message-ID: <831rtpo460.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86r21qvsyd.fsf@zoho.eu> <83lfrxomrd.fsf@gnu.org> <865zj1wti9.fsf@zoho.eu> <83d0d9odjb.fsf@gnu.org> <86r21pve8h.fsf@zoho.eu> <834kylo8r9.fsf@gnu.org> <86v9r1tu0p.fsf@zoho.eu> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="6470"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 30 15:00:45 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ib3Ih-0001WB-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:00:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40594 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ib3If-0005qB-DM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 09:00:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40469) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ib3IR-0005pb-Pn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 09:00:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ib3IR-0002Qb-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 09:00:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3459 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ib3IL-0007mv-JA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 09:00:23 -0500 In-reply-to: <86v9r1tu0p.fsf@zoho.eu> (message from Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:42:46 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121961 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:42:46 +0100 > From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > > What switches are supported? Any switches supported by the 'man' command you have installed, I think. > I mean except for -a, which is the only one > mentioned, and doesn't work. It does work: it produces all of the man pages by that name, in all of the sections. You just need to go from one to the other with M-n and M-p, as "C-h m" tells you. > What is the 'man' program refered to? The one you have installed. man.el just invokes the first one it finds on PATH. > The Unix man(1) is a pager. No, 'man' is not a pager. It is a program that formats and displays manual pages. A pager is a program like 'more' or 'less'. At least that's what I would call a "pager".