GNU bug report logs - #25771
25.1; Emacs man page top line should mention 'editor'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David R Forrest <drf <at> vims.edu>

Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:28:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 25779

Found in version 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David R Forrest <drf <at> vims.edu>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 25.1; Emacs man page top line should mention 'editor'
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 05:48:12 +0000

I was teaching a class of students about Unix/Linux/GNU and wanted to
show them their editing options with:

   man -k editor

I was surprised that Emacs did not shop up on the list.  I expected 
the results to include something like:

    emacs(1)                 - GNU project Emacs editor


I suggest editing emacs.1 to have the line:

   emacs \- GNU project Emacs editor


Thanks for great editor,
Dave
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