From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16722: 24.3.50; `M-x man' does not handle case appropriately Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:50:04 +0200 Message-ID: <831svhwv0z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <85fvnkwarc.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <834n40ayg4.fsf@gnu.org> <858utbkgof.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <831tz3btr8.fsf@gnu.org> <85ob27ywed.fsf@iznogoud.viz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1485978672 21262 195.159.176.226 (1 Feb 2017 19:51:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 19:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wjenkner@inode.at, 16722@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 01 20:51:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vq-0005H3-VP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:51:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52690 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vw-0005vF-HV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vp-0005uM-RU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vm-0006YE-Pi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:55451) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vm-0006YA-LZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vm-0001x3-FM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:51:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16722 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 16722-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16722.14859786377469 (code B ref 16722); Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16722) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Feb 2017 19:50:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53650 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vN-0001wP-IC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:50:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53896) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vL-0001wC-Ja for 16722@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:50:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vD-0006Qh-EG for 16722@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vD-0006Qc-AX; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:50:27 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1906 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cZ0vC-0008MX-0W; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:50:27 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:25:43 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:128872 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:25:43 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 16722@debbugs.gnu.org > > > Since the both of you seem to agree that emacs should magically fix > > important (but easily fixed) deficiencies in your system setup, do as > > you please and I'll leave it at that. > > Coming back to this bug (which is still there). > > I did try running `makewhatis', BTW. That just raised a bunch of errors: > > makewhatis > FIND: Invalid switch > FIND: Invalid switch > FIND: Invalid switch > FIND: Invalid switch > FIND: Invalid switch > -uThe system cannot find the file specified. Your system is mis-configured: it finds the Windows find.exe before (or instead) finding the Cygwin find.exe. You should re-arrange your PATH. > makewhatis -w > cp: cannot create regular file `/cygdrive/c/Program/whatis': No such file or directory > cp: cannot create regular file `Files/GnuWin32/man/whatis': No such file or directory > cp: cannot create regular file `/cygdrive/c/Program/whatis': No such file or directory > cp: cannot create regular file `Files/GnuWin32/man/whatis': No such file or directory And this looks like some problem with file names with embedded blanks ("Program Files"). > Is there really no possibility that Emacs will fix this? I don't see any evidence of an Emacs problem here.