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From: | Emacs bug Tracking System |
Subject: | bug#3717: marked as done (M-x man completion) |
Date: | Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:15:08 +0000 |
Your message dated Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:01:05 +0200 with message-id <87fx7x72qd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> and subject line Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion has caused the Emacs bug report #3717, regarding M-x man completion to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com immediately.) -- 3717: http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3717 Emacs Bug Tracking System Contact owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com with problems
--- Begin Message ---Subject: M-x man completion Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:48:10 +0800 severity: wishlist I was thinking when M-x man prompts Manual entry (default Neurdsburg): wouldn't it be neat if there was completion, just like for M-! shell-command...
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:01:05 +0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) >>> 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. > > AFAIK it does. 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. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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