Subject: bug#4056 closed by Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion)

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:15:09 +0000

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#3717: 23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names

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Subject: Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion
From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
To: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Kevin Ryde <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:01:05 +0200

>>> If man can say its page names then asking it would have to be the most
>>> reliable way.
>> It should be implemented to fail gracefully to not display completions
>> when man can not say its page names.
>
> AFAIK it does.

Yes, I tried to emulate `man' that doesn't support the -k switch
(using a non-existent switch), and it fails gracefully by not
providing completions, i.e. the same behavior as was in Emacs 23.1.
Anyone on platforms where `man' doesn't support the -k switch,
could use woman.el anyway.

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Subject: 23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names
From: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:47:43 +0800

Gentlemen, as you know when you do M-x man and get the prompt
   Manual entry (default blabla):
there is no TAB completion.

Well as many of the man pages are the same names as shell commands, why
not just use the same completion as shell-command and
shell-command-on-region use?

It's better than nothing, and one can still enter other names too.