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

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Message #29 received at 10840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner <at> inode.at>
Cc: 10840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10840: 24.0.93;
 No `man' command completion on Windows (using Cygwin for man pages)
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:13:26 -0800

Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner <at> inode.at> 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.

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