From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:13:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3d4c1hl.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <857gob2btx.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (Wolfgang Jenkner's message of "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:11:50 +0100")
Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes:
> I suspect you have the man program from
>
> http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
>
> In this case, essentially, "man -k ^" ends up calling "apropos ^", which
> gives this output if it can't find any `whatis' database file or all
> those files are empty.
>
> Otherwise, "man -k ^" works fine, even in the 1999 vintage man-1.5g.
>
> Also, `apropos' is a shell script, so you can easily inspect it and
> debug your `man' installation.
This doesn't seem to be an Emacs bug, then. Closing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-09 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-18 19:51 bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Drew Adams
2012-02-18 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-18 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-18 20:28 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-19 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-17 0:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 15:06 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-21 18:11 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-02-09 5:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2014-02-11 14:38 ` Drew Adams
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