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bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:13:26 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes:
> I suspect you have the man program from
>
> http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
>
> In this case, essentially, "man -k ^" ends up calling "apropos ^", which
> gives this output if it can't find any `whatis' database file or all
> those files are empty.
>
> Otherwise, "man -k ^" works fine, even in the 1999 vintage man-1.5g.
>
> Also, `apropos' is a shell script, so you can easily inspect it and
> debug your `man' installation.
This doesn't seem to be an Emacs bug, then. Closing.
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