From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joseph Brenner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: ESC x man and "man -k" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:07:59 -0800 Message-ID: <87eillbbyo.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263966078 17602 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2010 05:41:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:41:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 20 06:41:10 2010 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 1NXTJW-0000Vn-49 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:41:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXTJW-0008Ok-JQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:41:10 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.rawbandwidth!news.posted.rawbandwidth.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:43 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t9BuEAWlOnS26THV+/Mw/kvm1u0= Original-Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.144.208.84 Original-X-Trace: sv3-WwM3zXJx9wkg8Az9/vcpVB+iDVQqN+8+T6VK6cOl2BMWsQWKYu6x7T6SjAtUpr2gzWmGvv/1Mwf6jkD!56rM4D6LFyeL2lS8+JH4tfTeV0LFNl99bhdh2yoeYVbaIK7wUN4RLWNoYo7JJivQ7LOM4Mi9Luk= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176242 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:71312 Archived-At: I've always liked the man feature: man -k Which does something like an "apropos" search on man pages. I used to use this feature often inside of emacs, first doing an ESC x man then at the prompt, entering: -k Now, with a recent "cvs emacs" (soon to be called "bizarre emacs", I fear), I find that I can't type the space after the -k. Is this supposed to be a feature? How can I fix it?