Subject: Re: bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db

From: Kevin Ryde <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:59:06 +1100

Wolfgang Jenkner <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> It's not used for parsing, it's only prepended to the search string
> passed to `man -k'.

Ah.  I even had a note in my bit about that.  Yes.  Daniel Pittman I
think it was reported that on macos man -k '' empty string gives no
output, hence "^".