From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:31:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <856247krc6.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355340746 12415 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2012 19:32:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:32:26 +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 Wed Dec 12 20:32:39 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 1Tis2o-0003jW-IM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:32:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tis2b-0001Lh-LJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:32:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tis2W-0001LD-HM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:32:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tis2Q-0007Go-K2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:32:20 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tis2Q-0007Gj-GU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tis3C-0003xK-19 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:33:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:33:01 +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=B13160.135534075115148 (code B ref 13160); Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:33:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13160) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Dec 2012 19:32:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39409 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tis2g-0003wG-RC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:43510) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tis2f-0003wA-2l for 13160@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:32:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tis1q-00087j-GG; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:31:38 -0500 X-Spook: doctrine mindwar Exon Shell EuroFed industrial X-Ran: 0I8MXW?\sd\o_3}FhUfG5CLA~+S<7|OB4:y;`b_N);Sn'~1m9AiC;X)Y^mL|J)>!~k|544 X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <856247krc6.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (Wolfgang Jenkner's message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:16:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 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:68416 Archived-At: Wolfgang Jenkner wrote: > In lisp/man.el, completion of man pages and sections depends on parsing > the output of `man -k'. As a bonus, this method provides short > descriptions in the form of tooltips in the *Completions* buffer. IMO it should just search MANPATH, like bash_completion does. http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10712#11 This is perhaps a separate issue, but would avoid all of this: > However, the code only handles the `man -k' output format peculiar to > the man-db package, which, even on GNU/Linux, is not the only one used > for this purpose. > > For example, Slackware seems to use man-1.6g, whose `man -k' output can > have an additional reference in square brackets between the page name > and the section, so that man topic completion does work in this case, > but neither sections nor descriptions are parsed. > > The situation is even worse for FreeBSD, where multiple comma-separated > page names can be shown on the same line (which is arguably against the > spirit of POSIX man(1p), but that's not quite clear and doesn't help > much).