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Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 46979 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
Subject: bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:15:24 +0200

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Cc: mardani29 <at> yahoo.es,  46979 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 01:06:32 +0800
> 
> >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> EZ> Who on earth needs to read the man page of crontab(5)?
> 
> How then, do you remember the order of the five numbers on each line?
> Is the first the minute, or the hour, etc.
> 
> Also crontab doesn't have an Info manual.
> 
> Anyway, if someone wrote the crontab(5) man page, that probably means it
> exists for a reason.
> 
> Same say for fstab(5).

OK, but why do you insist on doing this via file-local variables?

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