From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: man in shell mode Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:23:17 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305609792 17981 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2011 05:23:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:23:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 17 07:23:05 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMCkI-0005R2-Dg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:23:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48939 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMCkH-0002Uh-UK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 01:23:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49211) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMCkC-0002Uc-PK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 01:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMCkB-0007Rb-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 01:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33092) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMCkB-0007RS-LO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 01:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMCkA-0005OG-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:22:54 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.25.24]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:22:54 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:22:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80990 Archived-At: On 5/16/11 11:31 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Shiyuan wrote: >> Hi, >> The man command does not work well in shell mode. How should I set it up? > > Why don't you try `M-x man' or `M-x woman' instead? I think man > doesn't work on shell mode because of a lack of an appropriate pager. > It might work with 'cat' or 'more' in shell mode. M-x man is better, but you could set & export PAGER=cat in your ~/.emacs_SHELLNAME file (as I do). -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA