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#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:23:55 +0100 Message-ID: <85r4mgqjb8.fsf@iznogoud.viz> References: <856247krc6.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87sj78fi0w.fsf@blah.blah> <85ip84qpu8.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87ehisf7vp.fsf@blah.blah> <8562416f6d.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <8538yyt7z8.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <85txrermss.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <851uegr1jz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356315880 4273 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2012 02:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13160@debbugs.gnu.org, Kevin Ryde To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 24 03:24:54 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 1Tmxim-0006Rn-H9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:24:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44472 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmxiY-0004zI-83 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmxiV-0004zB-F0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:24:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmxiU-00027S-D0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmxiU-00027O-9p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:24:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tmxiv-0001aQ-Rp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:25:01 -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: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:25:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13160 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 13160-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13160.13563158716059 (code B ref 13160); Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:25:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13160) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Dec 2012 02:24:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57279 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TmxiQ-0001Zg-Pu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:24:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mx21.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.23]:60431 helo=mx.inode.at) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TmxiO-0001ZY-P5 for 13160@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:24:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [91.119.206.19] (port=12498 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-21.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tmxhw-0007JW-8i; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:24:00 +0100 Original-Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Tmxhs-0000jG-8f; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:23:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:20:53 -0500") 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:68976 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 24 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote: > The easiest is probably to keep the current structure and just drop the > ^ if the string is non-empty (we'll get lots more false-positives than > with the ^, but we still gain: even for some single letters, like > "man -k b", we get less than half as much data as "man -k ^"). You mean, for all man programs? I considered this as well, but I just don't feel like making things worse for the two man programs which are used on GNU-based system, and which do have a single page name per line, and at its beginning (quite reasonably so, and in the spirit of POSIX man(1p), I'd say). So perhaps the second patch I proposed (without the test for valid output of `man -k ^') http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/68605 would be better, after all, even though the Man-keyword-completion-anchor variable is ugly. Wolfgang