From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <856247krc6.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87sj78fi0w.fsf@blah.blah> <85ip84qpu8.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87ehisf7vp.fsf@blah.blah> <8562416f6d.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <8538yyt7z8.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <85txrermss.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <851uegr1jz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356307239 10808 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2012 00:00:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13160@debbugs.gnu.org, Kevin Ryde To: Wolfgang Jenkner Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 24 01:00:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmvTR-0001vA-PG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:00:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmvTD-0000Sp-K2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmvTB-0000Sk-GQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmvTA-0002YY-CU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:37 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmvTA-0002YU-8z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TmvTa-0005e2-FZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:01:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13160 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 13160-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13160.135630724421671 (code B ref 13160); Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13160) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Dec 2012 00:00:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57161 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TmvTH-0005dQ-1J for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:43 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:44096) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TmvTD-0005dH-V4 for 13160@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:40 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id qBO009is017732; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:10 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 10A17B4311; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <851uegr1jz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (Wolfgang Jenkner's message of "Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:49:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4441=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4441> : streams <879593> : uri <1302201> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:68964 Archived-At: >>>> Does it fix an actual bug? [ Sorry if it does fix a real bug and this >>>> was mentioned somewhere in this thread, but I haven't found the time to >>>> read all threads as thoroughly as I'd like. ] >>> My proposed change log entry indicates that the cache handling is rather >>> bogus (complete for "foo" then for "bar" and then for "foo" again and >>> "man -k ^foo" will be run again and the result prepended to the cache). >> Oh, indeed. Fixed with the trivial patch below, tho. > Well yes, you nuke the old content, whis is what the previous versions > of my patches proposed here do as well, but this can hardly be called > a useful cache then. It can still be very useful: when you do M-x man RET pe TAB r TAB TAB it will only run `man' once instead of 3 or more times. That's the main purpose of the cache. The fact that the cache is preserved between runs of M-x man is probably more a misfeature, since it means that the cache is never refreshed (i.e. gets out of date after "aptitude upgrade"). Stefan