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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ron Mitchell <ron@ronmitchell.co.uk>
Cc: 41859@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41859: 27.0.91; docstring for 'man' command
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 11:37:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d05uw2ts.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7babf883-a44d-f01c-67bc-9d8f66877e54@ronmitchell.co.uk> (message from Ron Mitchell on Sun, 14 Jun 2020 19:46:27 +0100)

> From: Ron Mitchell <ron@ronmitchell.co.uk>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 19:46:27 +0100
> 
> C-h f man (describe-function "man") 
> 
> brings up the docstring for the 'man' function. Several of the usages 
> described involve an argument string containing a space, namely 
> 
> 1 cat 
> -a chmod 
> -l somefile.1 
> -k pattern 
> 
> But these argument strings cannot be entered because argument entry is 
> performing a completing read on available man pages. 

Thank you for your report.

However, I cannot reproduce the problem.  The first example works
as-is for me, and the others work if I use "C-q SPC" to insert a
space.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-20  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-14 18:46 bug#41859: 27.0.91; docstring for 'man' command Ron Mitchell
2020-06-20  8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]   ` <6f4fdead-b5df-4163-9fd4-34928373af1f@www.fastmail.com>
2020-06-27  7:49     ` Eli Zaretskii

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