From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Emacs inventing system documentation Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:00:05 +0100 (CET) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: Reuben Thomas NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074774095 16055 80.91.224.253 (22 Jan 2004 12:21:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:21:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 22 13:21:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ajdpt-0005rC-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:21:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjdoO-0000OA-8D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:19:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ajdge-0006uq-BP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:11:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjdaE-0004tu-Ju for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:05:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.206.202.87] (helo=cognition.stroop.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AjdVM-000424-CN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rrt (helo=localhost) by cognition.stroop.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AjdVH-0003ku-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:00:07 +0000 X-X-Sender: rrt@mnemosyne Original-To: Emacs Bugs X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6684 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6684 I'm using Emacs 21.3.1, and have noticed that from time to time, when I use M-x man foo RET to get a man page, the man page is displayed along with a message "foo man page made up". I don't want Emacs inventing man pages! I'd rather it just displayed the man page I have installed, or gave an error if it didn't exist. I must admit that up to now I haven't noticed any differences between the pages made up by Emacs and those I get from using the "man" command, but I haven't checked the details. What if Emacs guesses wrongly about some arcane corner of bash variable expansion? I could end up wasting hours trying to track down a bug in a script (and even perhaps waste developers' time by mistakenly reporting a bug in bash) when the real problem is Emacs's unwilligness or inability to just look at the real man pages. Is this just a configuration problem? I think I have my MANPATH and so-on correctly set up. Looking through apropos I notice: Man-default-man-entry Function: Make a guess at a default manual entry. I'm guessing this function is being run when it shouldn't be. -- http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/ | impossible, a. worth doing