Re: M-x man when cursor on top of hyphenated reference

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Man-follow-manual-reference can find maildropex even though it has a dash:
> SEE ALSO
>        lockmail(1),   maildropfilter(5),  makedat(1),  maildropgdbm(5),  mail-
>        dropex(5),  reformail(1),  makeuserdb(1),  makemime(1),   reformime(1),
>        egrep(1), grep(1), , courier(8), sendmail(8), http://www.qmail.org.

> Hovever, the m command, which usually knows what is under the cursor,
> doesn't know about maildropex when on top of it

Here's a hack for you to try.  If it works, I can try to implement it as

a proper patch to man.el:


(defadvice Man-default-man-entry (after hyphenated activate)
  "Handle hypenated manual references."
  (if (string-match (format "-\\((%s)\\)?\\'" Man-section-regexp)
                    ad-return-value)
      (save-excursion
        (forward-line 1)
        (setq ad-return-value (Man-default-man-entry)))
    (let ((prefix (Man-possibly-hyphenated-word)))
      (if (string-match "-\\'" prefix)
          (setq ad-return-value
                (concat (substring prefix 0 (match-beginning 0))
                        ad-return-value))))))

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