From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Smerdon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems reading some manual pages in emacs (M-x Woman) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:54:48 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <86myq879zr.fsf@magma.ca> References: <86bq6rqcf4.fsf@magma.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202683241 3161 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2008 22:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 10 23:41:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOKr9-0005Rn-9m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:41:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOKqf-0001Bj-Vz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!208.49.83.146.MISMATCH!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!PRIMUS.CA-a2iRZhxs1f50M!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Subliminal-Message: God rides a Harley, but the Devil rides a Triumph User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CAJ83aeZ7BpDi48FgFcwz7SfBhY= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: dc30347af7294e5bf31e902879 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156030 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51405 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa 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.