bug#4056: marked as done (23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names)

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and subject line Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion
has caused the Emacs bug report #3717,
regarding 23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names
to be marked as done.

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> 23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names
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> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:47:43 +0800
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> Gentlemen, as you know when you do M-x man and get the prompt
>    Manual entry (default blabla):
> there is no TAB completion.
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> Well as many of the man pages are the same names as shell commands, why
> not just use the same completion as shell-command and
> shell-command-on-region use?
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> It's better than nothing, and one can still enter other names too.
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> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:01:05 +0200
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> >>> If man can say its page names then asking it would have to be the most
> >>> reliable way.
> >> It should be implemented to fail gracefully to not display completions
> >> when man can not say its page names.
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> > AFAIK it does.
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> Yes, I tried to emulate `man' that doesn't support the -k switch
> (using a non-existent switch), and it fails gracefully by not
> providing completions, i.e. the same behavior as was in Emacs 23.1.
> Anyone on platforms where `man' doesn't support the -k switch,
> could use woman.el anyway.
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> Juri Linkov
> http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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