From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:06:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85d2yb1hiz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:14:39 -0700")
On Mon, Sep 17 2012, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > $ man -k ^
>> > ^: nothing appropriate
>>
>> I guess your `man' doesn't support this option, or maybe it needs for
>> you to create the apropos database. In any case, "M-x man" should
>> handle this kind of output gracefully, which it evidently doesn't.
>
> ping
As Eli suggested, the question is if your man program supports the `-k'
option.
If you don't have a `whatis' database you should have a `makewhatis' or
a `mandb' program to generate it.
Then, please try
$ man -k ls
What do you get then? Does one of
$ apropos ls
or
$ whatis ls
work?
If there's no joy, please post the output of
$ man -h
$ man --help
$ man --version
Wolfgang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-15 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-18 19:51 bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Drew Adams
2012-02-18 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-18 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-18 20:28 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-19 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-17 0:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 15:06 ` Wolfgang Jenkner [this message]
2012-12-21 18:11 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-02-09 5:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-11 14:38 ` Drew Adams
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