GNU bug report logs - #10840
24.0.93; No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:54:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.93

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 10840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 10840 <at> debbugs.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 22:19:10 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 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 ^
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