From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Jenkner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <85d2yb1hiz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355584022 16171 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2012 15:07:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 15 16:07:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtKe-00074v-4Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtKQ-0003Vm-UF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39090) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtKN-0003VZ-Nx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtKM-0000dS-Jh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:06:59 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtKM-0000dG-GF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtLN-0007Dx-SL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:08:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Wolfgang Jenkner Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10840 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10840-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10840.135558407627755 (code B ref 10840); Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Dec 2012 15:07:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44178 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtLG-0007Db-JD for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx05.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.5]:60361 helo=mx.inode.at) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtLC-0007DR-LD for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:07:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [91.119.206.19] (port=3248 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-05.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtK9-0005Jh-Np; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:06:45 +0100 Original-Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtK8-0000hN-2i; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:06:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:14:39 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (berkeley-unix) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:68559 Archived-At: 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