From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 64795@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64795: 30.0.50; manual-entry [(1) fails
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 22:23:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rb6tosb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkg3igto.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:58:59 +0200)
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:58:59 +0200
>
> In Gnu/Linux there is a binary named "[" in /usr/bin/, and it has a man
> page I can read in a terminal using "man '[(1)'".
>
> Requesting the man page in Emacs using `man' is broken, however:
>
> M-x manual-entry RET [ TAB
>
> echoes "[No match]" - this is the first problem (the failing
> completion).
>
> C-g, let's try differently:
>
> M-x manual-entry RET TAB [ TAB
>
> (that's the same as before but additionally requesting all candidates
> before writing in the minibuffer) suddenly completes to "[(1)" as
> expected. But when confirming with RET the man buffer only has these
> contents:
>
> | /bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> |
> | process exited abnormally with code 2
>
> That's the second problem.
Does the patch below give good results?
diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 479bf9f9a3c..bbcbe5d1525 100644
--- a/lisp/man.el
+++ b/lisp/man.el
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Man-cooked-hook
:type 'hook
:group 'man)
-(defvar Man-name-regexp "[-[:alnum:]_+][-[:alnum:]_.:+]*"
+(defvar Man-name-regexp "[-[:alnum:]_+[][-[:alnum:]_.:+]*"
"Regular expression describing the name of a manpage (without section).")
(defvar Man-section-regexp "[0-9][a-zA-Z0-9+]*\\|[LNln]"
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ Man-completion-table
"-k" (concat (when (or Man-man-k-use-anchor
(string-equal prefix ""))
"^")
- prefix))))
+ (shell-quote-argument prefix)))))
(setq table (Man-parse-man-k)))))
;; Cache the table for later reuse.
(when table
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-23 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-23 0:58 bug#64795: 30.0.50; manual-entry [(1) fails Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-23 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-24 0:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-24 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-25 1:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-25 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-26 3:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-26 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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