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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 3717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org, user42 <at> zip.com.au
Subject: Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:19:04 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
> Cc: 3717 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  jidanni <at> jidanni.org,  user42 <at> zip.com.au
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:42:17 +0200
> 
> I see that `Man-getpage-in-background' calls `start-process' (with
> a shell command name prepended) to run "man", but `Man-completion-table'
> calls `call-process' (without a shell command prepended) to run "man -k".
> That's the difference.
> 
> Shouldn't `Man-completion-table' prepend a shell command name to not fail
> when `manual-program' is "LC_CTYPE=C man"?  Isn't it easier just to do this
> than to declare it as an abuse?

I have nothing against calling `man' through the shell in all cases,
but if we do that, we need to rename the variable to something like
`man-shell-command' and document it as a "shell command that produces
manual pages".
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