From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: if can't find man page, prompt for another Date: 11 Jul 2002 16:00:36 +0900 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87it3oi4vi.fsf@jidanni.org> <87hej6rchl.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026370842 27710 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2002 07:00:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17SXwQ-0007Cp-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:00:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SXx9-0008S0-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SXwU-0008P3-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.193]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g6B70eR09211; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:00:41 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g6B70er01722; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:00:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g6B70bN25495; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:00:38 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g6B70aS00851; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:00:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 6A49337D5; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:00:36 +0900 (JST) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87hej6rchl.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> Original-Lines: 18 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2612 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2612 pot@gnu.org (Francesco Potorti`) writes: > OK, how about here prompting me for a different man page, instead of > having me type in M-x man (gpg) again. > > This is a good idea, in my opinion. I'm not so sure; it could also be annoying. In my experience, it's much more common for M-x man to fail because there _is_ no man page for a program, not because I typed something wrong. Re-prompting is just a waste of time in that case. I also think that it's a good general rule for a command to have a single consistent terminating state, error or no; it's simply less surprising for the user. -Miles -- I'd rather be consing.