Subject: Re: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)

From: Wolfgang Jenkner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:06:44 +0100

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