Re: man integration with tramp

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 07/10/2023 19:00, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>>    man -l - </usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
> 
> However, this will be the second choice only for showing remote man
> pages, because the local man command could not handle references well I
> fear. And completion candidates for other man pages won't work for remote
> hosts either with this approach.

I suggested it for Tramp methods which do not support remote processes.

However if a man page is opened through path to the file (instead of 
just page name) then neighbor files and directories should be considered 
before standard MANPATH when another man page is opened from this 
buffer. It does not matter if it is a remote or a local file. Likely the 
current page is from another set that is e.g. newer or older than system 
pages.

WoMan has code that travels through directories to build completion 
list. However I do not like that WoMan does not allow to specify section 
as man(7) and requires additional step to choose appropriate section. 
Perhaps a part of related code may be reused.