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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:18:32 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:51:23 -0800
> 
> emacs -Q
>  
> M-x man RET
>  
> Hitting TAB (with no minibuffer input) completes the empty input to the
> two chars `^:'.  Thereafter I can do nothing with that.  Whether I type
> anything after the `^:' or not, TAB just completes to `^:'.

man.el invokes the `man' command with "^" concatenated to whatever you
typed.  So the question becomes what does your port of `man' produce
if you invoke it from the shell command line like this:

   man ^