[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#3717: marked as done (M-x man completion)

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and subject line Re: bug#4056: Searching for program: no such file or 
directory, LC_CTYPE=C man
has caused the Emacs bug report #4056,
regarding M-x man completion
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> M-x man completion
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> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:48:10 +0800
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> severity: wishlist
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> 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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> Re: bug#4056: Searching for program: no such file or directory,	LC_CTYPE=C man
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> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:10:52 -0500
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux)
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> > Can someone please send me the workaround!!
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> I've just installed the patch below which should silence those errors
> (tho the error will still be there and will prevent completion from
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>         Stefan
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> === modified file 'lisp/man.el'
> --- lisp/man.el 2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000
> +++ lisp/man.el 2010-02-11 15:54:21 +0000
> @@ -771,8 +771,13 @@
>            ;; quote anything.
>            (let ((process-environment (copy-sequence process-environment)))
>              (setenv "COLUMNS" "999") ;; don't truncate long names
> +            ;; manual-program might not even exist.  And since it's
> +            ;; run differently in Man-getpage-in-background, an error
> +            ;; here may not necessarily mean that we'll also get an
> +            ;; error later.
> +            (ignore-errors
>              (call-process manual-program nil '(t nil) nil
> -                          "-k" (concat "^" prefix)))
> +                            "-k" (concat "^" prefix))))
>            (goto-char (point-min))
>            (while (re-search-forward "^\\([^ \t\n]+\\)\\(?: ?\\((.+?)\\)\\(?:[ 
> \t]+- \\(.*\\)\\)?\\)?" nil t)
>              (push (propertize (concat (match-string 1) (match-string 2))
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