GNU bug report logs - #3717
M-x man completion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:55:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 4056

Found in version 1:20100118-1

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #187 received at 3717 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 3717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:12 +1100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> how about searching MANPATH directories ourselves?

M-x woman does that, though finding the manpath isn't necessarily easy
(with the man-db /etc/manpath.conf), and there can be pagename aliases
found by lexgrog in the pages, which don't have actual filenames.

If man can say its page names then asking it would have to be the most
reliable way.  I slightly hoped near enough to all mans could do that
these days ...
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