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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 63132@debbugs.gnu.org, asocial-hired.0l@icloud.com
Subject: bug#63132: Bug on Darwin MacOS with 'M-x man RET commandname[ ]'
Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 12:30:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpm7kggpq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wn1wqobx.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:43:30 +0300")

> But then I don't understand the situation: why would someone type
> "M-x man RET 2 ", with the trailing space?  Is this simply a mistake
> on behalf of the user?

`M-x man` accepts various special syntaxes in the minibuffer, such as
`2 read` to mean "read the manpage for `read` in the 2nd section"
(i.e. syscalls), like Arteen1000 mentions.

So `M-x man RET 2 SPC TAB` should (hopefully) list all the section
2's manpages.


        Stefan






  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-01 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-27 21:10 bug#63132: Bug on Darwin MacOS with 'M-x man RET commandname[ ]' asocial-hired.0l--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-28  6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <D8C28A70-F144-4F14-96E2-72C967D8DB43@gmail.com>
2023-04-28  7:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-28 10:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-28 15:18         ` Arteen1000
2023-05-01 16:30         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-05-01 16:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-01 18:03             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-01 18:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02  6:33                 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-02 12:00                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02 12:52                     ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-02 13:17                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-03 12:09                     ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-04 22:36                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-03 11:35 ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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