From: Peter Smerdon <psmerdon@magma.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems reading some manual pages in emacs (M-x Woman)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:54:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86myq879zr.fsf@magma.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7201.1202549731.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 09.02.2008 um 00:02 schrieb Peter Smerdon:
>
>> For example, I installed `namp' and `most', neither show up in
>> Woman. The only way to read these fine manual pages is to use
>> woman-find-file.
>
> Do you know makewhatis? This creates the database files that are used by
> apropos or man -k.
hmm, I see no ubuntu package for makewhatis and apt-file can't find it, makewhatis
gives me command not found even after sudo mandb -c
the wahtis command works from my terminal though.
--
Peter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 23:02 problems reading some manual pages in emacs (M-x Woman) Peter Smerdon
2008-02-09 1:04 ` Tim X
2008-02-09 11:17 ` Peter Smerdon
2008-02-09 9:35 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.7201.1202549731.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-10 21:54 ` Peter Smerdon [this message]
2008-02-10 23:16 ` Peter Dyballa
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