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 #17 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: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:00:12 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: <10840 <at> 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.
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