Subject: Re: bug#10712: $MANPATH is ignored by man.el

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:36:51 -0500

>> It uses man -k (aka apropos).
> bash_completion, on the other hand, does stat directories from
> `man --path', and it's always seemed fast enough to me.

There's no particularly strong reason why we use "man -k" other than
"that's what I started with".  So if you want to change that (after
24.1), that's fine, tho I think it's important to make sure it still
works on macosx.

        Stefan