On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:53:16 +0000 (UTC) >> From: Van Ly >> cc: 53590@debbugs.gnu.org >> >>>                                                        Are you sure >>> "M-x man" on your system is capable of completion in the default >>> completion mode in "emacs -Q"? If not, maybe your man-db database is >>> missing or outdated? >>> >> >> On NetBSD the output from apropos is different in format to the one >> on GNU/Linux. Could that be why the behavior is stuck? > > Could be, but why are you looking at "apropos"? I used "apropos" in the environment outside of GNU Emacs as a test that man-db database is working. >                                                  AFAIU, man.el uses > "man -k", and there are various attempts to adapt to some systems, see > Man-man-k-use-anchor. Maybe NetBSD needs to be handled like kfreebsd? > Looking at /etc/man.conf (attached see), I have two lines as follows: > plan9 /usr/local/plan9/man/ > heirloom /usr/pkg/heirloom-doctools/man Maybe that missing final forward slash is a problem. Thanks, I will look up: * man.el * Man-man-k-use-anchor Maybe NetBSD wants to be handled like kfreebsd, as you say. -- vl