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bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin
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Wolfgang Jenkner |
Subject: |
bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:06:44 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (berkeley-unix) |
On Mon, Sep 17 2012, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > $ man -k ^
>> > ^: nothing appropriate
>>
>> I guess your `man' doesn't support this option, or maybe it needs for
>> you to create the apropos database. In any case, "M-x man" should
>> handle this kind of output gracefully, which it evidently doesn't.
>
> ping
As Eli suggested, the question is if your man program supports the `-k'
option.
If you don't have a `whatis' database you should have a `makewhatis' or
a `mandb' program to generate it.
Then, please try
$ man -k ls
What do you get then? Does one of
$ apropos ls
or
$ whatis ls
work?
If there's no joy, please post the output of
$ man -h
$ man --help
$ man --version
Wolfgang
- bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages),
Wolfgang Jenkner <=