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Re: Calling different man
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Calling different man |
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Date: |
11 Dec 2003 18:43:00 +0000 |
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>>>>> "Yuri" == Yuri Shtil <yshtil@cisco.com> writes:
Yuri> Hi
Yuri> It's been a while since I wrote lisp ...
Yuri> What I need to do is to use the existing man.el but a
Yuri> different man program. The situation is complicated since the
Yuri> program I want to use has a man subcommand:
Yuri> acme man ...
Yuri> What I want to do is to create a variation of the man command
Yuri> that would invoke acme with the first argument man and the
Yuri> rest provided by the user as in the original man command. I
Yuri> want to use all the stuff provided in the man.el.
Yuri> I could copy man.el and edit it, but I will wait for a few
Yuri> days hoping someone will point to a more elegant solution.
Does...
(setq manual-program "acme man")
work?
Phil