From unknown Thu Aug 21 12:10:07 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#10840 <10840@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#10840 <10840@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Reply-To: bug#10840 <10840@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:10:07 +0000 retitle 10840 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin= for man pages) reassign 10840 emacs submitter 10840 "Drew Adams" severity 10840 minor thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 18 14:53:43 2012 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2012 19:53:43 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44930 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqLm-0006dy-BQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:53:43 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47650) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqLk-0006dm-HB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:53:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqJg-0003Wn-VY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:51:34 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]:58132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqJg-0003Wj-U5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:51:32 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqJf-0002Gk-TJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:51:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqJe-0003WQ-8R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:51:31 -0500 Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:35026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqJe-0003WK-2O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:51:30 -0500 Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q1IJpR2M007131 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:51:28 GMT Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1IJpQTm018643 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:51:27 GMT Received: from abhmt113.oracle.com (abhmt113.oracle.com [141.146.116.65]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q1IJpQXs027393 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:51:26 -0600 Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.41.178) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:51:26 -0800 From: "Drew Adams" To: Subject: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:51:23 -0800 Message-ID: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AczudrEgGEDszmVkSmqTOIz0ZbiYWg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.4F400140.009D,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.17 X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) I have Cygwin installed (a rather old version; dunno which one or how to tell). I load `cygwin-mount.el', then `setup-cygwin.el', both of which are available on EmacsWiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/cygwin-mount.el http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/setup-cygwin.el 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 `^:'. If I instead first type `l' (as in `ls') and then hit TAB, I get [No match]. It doesn't seem to matter what I type in the minibuffer: TAB always says [No match]. (I can of course enter a complete command name, such as `ls' and hit RET. `man' then works correctly. It is only the UNIX command-name completion that is seemingly broken. Am I missing something? I tried to debug this a bit but wasn't successful in following what was happening. Please advise. Thx. In GNU Emacs 24.0.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-02-15 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include' From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 18 15:23:19 2012 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2012 20:23:19 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44939 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqoQ-0007Ky-Ox for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:23:18 -0500 Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:50811) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqoO-0007Kd-Rr for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:23:17 -0500 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LZL00800V5XG400@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:20:35 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.150.51]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LZL008GKV6AE080@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:20:35 +0200 (IST) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:18:32 +0200 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) In-reply-to: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Drew Adams Message-id: <83fwe7vqsn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 10840 Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) > From: "Drew Adams" > 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 ^ From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 18 15:23:21 2012 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2012 20:23:21 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44941 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqoT-0007L6-0v for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:23:21 -0500 Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:50811) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqoQ-0007Kd-2J for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:23:18 -0500 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LZL00800V5XG400@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:21:13 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.150.51]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LZL008KJV7CD7A0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:21:13 +0200 (IST) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:19:10 +0200 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) In-reply-to: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Drew Adams Message-id: <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 10840 Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) > From: "Drew Adams" > 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 -k ^ From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 18 15:30:22 2012 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2012 20:30:22 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44946 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqvF-0007VV-OZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:30:22 -0500 Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:50246) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RyqvA-0007VF-MG for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:30:20 -0500 Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q1IKS8PE020625 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:28:09 GMT Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1IKS7Xj025092 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:28:08 GMT Received: from abhmt114.oracle.com (abhmt114.oracle.com [141.146.116.66]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q1IKS7w9001717; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:28:07 -0600 Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.41.178) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:28:07 -0800 From: "Drew Adams" To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> Subject: RE: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:28:04 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: AczuewBHbmI07G8zQG+VsAUQrbxnzQAAE0DA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4F4009D9.0063,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-Spam-Score: -6.9 (------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 10840 Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -6.9 (------) > 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 -k ^ You also sent a mail saying to try `man ^', i.e., without `-k'. I tried both. $ man -k ^ ^: nothing appropriate $ man ^ No manual entry for ^ Dunno whether that helps. As I said, if I type nothing in the minibuffer and then hit TAB it completes to `^:' with no further completion available. If I instead type something (e.g. `l') and then hit TAB I get the message `[No match]'. The shell is bash. (And "man ls RET" works fine at the bash prompt.) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 18 23:04:42 2012 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Feb 2012 04:04:42 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45054 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryy0q-0000uf-Sz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:04:41 -0500 Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:37363) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryy0l-0000uL-5o for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:04:33 -0500 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LZM00D00GCL2W00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:02:15 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.150.51]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LZM00C7AGJPZVC0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:02:15 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:00:12 +0200 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Drew Adams Message-id: <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 10840 Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: <10840@debbugs.gnu.org> > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:28:04 -0800 > > $ 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. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Sep 16 20:16:07 2012 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Sep 2012 00:16:07 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37895 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TDP0Q-0006ZS-RQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:16:06 -0400 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:20667) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TDP0P-0006ZM-DK for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:16:05 -0400 Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q8H0EpIG004919 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:14:52 GMT Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q8H0EoWa016170 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:14:51 GMT Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q8H0EoI4015369; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:14:50 -0500 Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.170.142) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:14:50 -0700 From: "Drew Adams" To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> Subject: RE: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:14:39 -0700 Message-ID: <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: Aczuu0waoJyYXgLFS1qQh0yUVDGk9ClrhUsQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-Spam-Score: -7.4 (-------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 10840 Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -7.4 (-------) > > $ 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 From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Dec 15 10:07:56 2012 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Dec 2012 15:07:56 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44178 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtLG-0007Db-JD for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:07:55 -0500 Received: from mx05.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.5]:60361 helo=mx.inode.at) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtLC-0007DR-LD for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:07:52 -0500 Received: from [91.119.206.19] (port=3248 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-05.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtK9-0005Jh-Np; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:06:45 +0100 Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1TjtK8-0000hN-2i; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:06:44 +0100 From: Wolfgang Jenkner To: "Drew Adams" Subject: Re: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:06:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:14:39 -0700") Message-ID: <85d2yb1hiz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 0.8 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 10840 Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , 10840@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) 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 From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri Dec 21 19:02:58 2012 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Dec 2012 00:02:58 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54734 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TmCYL-0002tU-Dp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:02:57 -0500 Received: from mx14.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.16]:13703 helo=mx.inode.at) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TmCYI-0002tK-3Y for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:02:55 -0500 Received: from [91.119.206.19] (port=7829 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-14.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmCY1-0004aZ-0i; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:02:37 +0100 Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1TmCXy-0000Wz-HK; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:02:34 +0100 From: Wolfgang Jenkner To: "Drew Adams" Subject: Re: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:11:50 +0100 References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> <85d2yb1hiz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> Message-ID: <857gob2btx.fsf@iznogoud.viz> User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 2.4 (++) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "debbugs.gnu.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On Sat, Dec 15 2012, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote: > 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. 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The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On Sat, Dec 15 2012, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote: > 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. [...] Content analysis details: (1.6 points, 10.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [62.99.145.16 listed in list.dnswl.org] -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain 1.6 DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 Date: is 3 to 6 hours before Received: date -0.0 BAYES_40 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 20 to 40% [score: 0.2876] On Sat, Dec 15 2012, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote: > 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. I suspect you have the man program from http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/ In this case, essentially, "man -k ^" ends up calling "apropos ^", which gives this output if it can't find any `whatis' database file or all those files are empty. Otherwise, "man -k ^" works fine, even in the 1999 vintage man-1.5g. Also, `apropos' is a shell script, so you can easily inspect it and debug your `man' installation. > 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 `^:'. The empty string is a prefix of "^:", > If I instead first type `l' (as in `ls') and then hit TAB, I get [No > match]. It doesn't seem to matter what I type in the minibuffer: TAB > always says [No match]. but "l" is not a prefix of "^l:". From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Feb 09 00:14:56 2014 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Feb 2014 05:14:57 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58931 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjH-0006Cr-QA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:14:56 -0500 Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:54434) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjE-0006Cf-MY for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:14:53 -0500 Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMiz-0005pk-RI; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:14:38 +0100 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen To: Wolfgang Jenkner Subject: Re: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> <85d2yb1hiz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <857gob2btx.fsf@iznogoud.viz> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:13:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: <857gob2btx.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (Wolfgang Jenkner's message of "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:11:50 +0100") Message-ID: <87k3d4c1hl.fsf@building.gnus.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-MailScanner-ID: 1WCMiz-0005pk-RI X-Netfonds-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Netfonds-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1392527678.85052@kjHZzHj6wKVvp204uFgiYw X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 10840 Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Wolfgang Jenkner writes: > I suspect you have the man program from > > http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/ > > In this case, essentially, "man -k ^" ends up calling "apropos ^", which > gives this output if it can't find any `whatis' database file or all > those files are empty. > > Otherwise, "man -k ^" works fine, even in the 1999 vintage man-1.5g. > > Also, `apropos' is a shell script, so you can easily inspect it and > debug your `man' installation. This doesn't seem to be an Emacs bug, then. Closing. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/ From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Feb 09 00:15:00 2014 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Feb 2014 05:15:00 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58934 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjL-0006DA-Tv for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:15:00 -0500 Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:54441) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMjJ-0006D0-Ey for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:14:57 -0500 Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WCMj5-0005pr-Pu for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:14:44 +0100 Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:13:33 -0800 Message-Id: <87iosoc1he.fsf@building.gnus.org> To: control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Subject: control message for bug #10840 X-MailScanner-ID: 1WCMj5-0005pr-Pu X-Netfonds-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Netfonds-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1392527684.39144@5YL1d9byF+K2d0fejXjswg X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) close 10840 From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Feb 11 09:38:40 2014 Received: (at 10840) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Feb 2014 14:38:40 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46092 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WDETw-0001ps-3D for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:38:40 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:33994) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WDETs-0001pT-Kl for 10840@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:38:38 -0500 Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s1BEcUeK026724 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:38:30 GMT Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s1BEcTp2019836 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:38:29 GMT Received: from abhmp0005.oracle.com (abhmp0005.oracle.com [141.146.116.11]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s1BEcSpX006263; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:38:28 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6b858a29-548c-4240-baf6-619989247f31@default> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:38:28 -0800 (PST) From: Drew Adams To: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Wolfgang Jenkner Subject: RE: bug#10840: 24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages) References: <66610117D7564FE49598FDDC6BCC8308@us.oracle.com> <83ehtrvqrl.fsf@gnu.org> <83d39bv5f7.fsf@gnu.org> <66FB0A16523D42EA93E4B808F0031C3F@us.oracle.com> <85d2yb1hiz.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <857gob2btx.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87k3d4c1hl.fsf@building.gnus.org> In-Reply-To: <87k3d4c1hl.fsf@building.gnus.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 10840 Cc: 10840@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) > This doesn't seem to be an Emacs bug, then. Closing. Hm, I don't see why it follows from what Eli said that there is no Emacs bug here. Here is what he said: 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. Sounds like an Emacs bug, to me. From unknown Thu Aug 21 12:10:07 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:24:05 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator