From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ESC x man and "man -k"
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:49:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hj691c$ol7$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eillbbyo.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Joseph Brenner wrote:
> I've always liked the man feature:
> man -k <search_term>
> Which does something like an "apropos" search on man pages.
>
> I used to use this feature often inside of emacs, first doing an
> ESC x man
> then at the prompt, entering:
> -k <search_term>
>
> Now, with a recent "cvs emacs" (soon to be called "bizarre emacs", I fear),
> I find that I can't type the space after the -k.
>
> Is this supposed to be a feature? How can I fix it?
It must be doing completion on the option letter.
Type C-q SPC instead of just SPC.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-20 6:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-20 5:07 ESC x man and "man -k" Joseph Brenner
2010-01-20 6:49 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2010-01-20 6:55 ` ESC x man and "man -k" (possible bug?) tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.1761.1263970216.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-22 9:11 ` ESC x man and "man -k" Joseph Brenner
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