From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <87k3d4c1hl.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> <85d2yb1hiz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <857gob2btx.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391922909 18253 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2014 05:15:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 05:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org To: Wolfgang Jenkner Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 09 06:15:17 2014 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 1WCMjc-00061C-71 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:15:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjb-00080X-OZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:15:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41545) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjU-0007yD-AB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:15:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjP-0000s6-A7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjP-0000ry-7F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:15:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjO-0006Db-Mk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:15:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:15:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10840 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10840-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10840.139192289723866 (code B ref 10840); Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:15:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Feb 2014 05:14:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58931 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjH-0006Cr-QA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:54434) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjE-0006Cf-MY for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMiz-0005pk-RI; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:14:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: <857gob2btx.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (Wolfgang Jenkner's message of "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:11:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1WCMiz-0005pk-RI MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1392527678.85052@kjHZzHj6wKVvp204uFgiYw X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.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:85055 Archived-At: Wolfgang Jenkner 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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/