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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From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 3717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
	jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#3717: M-x man completion
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:20:09 +1100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:
>
> because `Man-completion-table' currently doesn't allow a command line

I threw down a couple of lines

        (call-process shell-file-name nil t nil
                      shell-command-switch
                      (concat manual-program " -k \"\""))

which get the right effect for me.  Not sure if Man-switches should be
worked in there.  If they're page formatting options they might be bad
with -k.

Man-completion-table would no doubt need a shell-quote-argument or
something to get its match string through the shell.  But I still think
Man-completion-table might better grab the entire list of page names
once.  On my old pc with 13,000 page names (yes, really :-) it's almost
as slow to fetch a few matches or the whole lot.  The cost is the RAM to
keep them all of course.
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