Calling different man

Calling different man

[Yuri Shtil]

Hi

It's been a while since I wrote lisp ...

What I need to do is to use the existing man.el but a different man 
program. The situation is complicated since the program I want to use 
has a man subcommand:

	acme man ...

What I want to do is to create a variation of the man command that would 
    invoke acme with the first argument man and the rest provided by the 
user as in the original man command. I want to use all the stuff 
provided in the man.el.

I could copy man.el and edit it, but I will wait for a few days hoping 
someone will point to a more elegant solution.


Yuri.

Re: Calling different man

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Yuri" == Yuri Shtil <yshtil@cisco.com> writes:

  Yuri> Hi

  Yuri> It's been a while since I wrote lisp ...

  Yuri> What I need to do is to use the existing man.el but a
  Yuri> different man program. The situation is complicated since the
  Yuri> program I want to use has a man subcommand:

  Yuri> 	acme man ...

  Yuri> What I want to do is to create a variation of the man command
  Yuri> that would invoke acme with the first argument man and the
  Yuri> rest provided by the user as in the original man command. I
  Yuri> want to use all the stuff provided in the man.el.

  Yuri> I could copy man.el and edit it, but I will wait for a few
  Yuri> days hoping someone will point to a more elegant solution.


Does...

(setq manual-program "acme man")

work?

Phil

Re: Calling different man

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Shtil <yshtil@cisco.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:11:25 -0800
> 
> What I need to do is to use the existing man.el but a different man 
> program. The situation is complicated since the program I want to use 
> has a man subcommand:
> 
> 	acme man ...
> 
> What I want to do is to create a variation of the man command that would 
>     invoke acme with the first argument man and the rest provided by the 
> user as in the original man command. I want to use all the stuff 
> provided in the man.el.

Why can't you simply frob the variable manual-program?  Its default
value is "man", but I cannot see anything that would prevent you from
changing that to "acme man".

Did I miss something?