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#5138
23.1; M-x man -k error message
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Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 00:20:08 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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If you do an M-x man keyword search with nothing matching, like
M-x man
-k jkjkjkjk Ret
The result shown is
error in process sentinel: Can't find the -k jkjkjkjk manpage
where reads as if it thought the "-k" was the page name -- which is not
the case, M-x man understands -k is an "apropos" keyword search.
This could be due to "man-db" (as used in debian and elsewhere) printing
nothing for no matches, as opposed to a "nothing appropriate" message
which Man-bgproc-sentinel knows to look for.
Perhaps something along the lines below,
2009-12-07 Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
* man.el (Man-bgproc-sentinel): When "-k foo" produces no output
show error "no matches" rather than "Can't find manpage", as the
latter reads like -k was interpreted as a page name (which is not
so).
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--- man.el.~1.193.~ 2009-11-29 08:37:28.000000000 +1100
+++ man.el 2009-12-07 11:04:19.000000000 +1100
@@ -1174,6 +1174,15 @@
(progn
(end-of-line) (point)))
delete-buff t))
+
+ ;; "-k foo", successful exit, but no output (from man-db)
+ ((and (string-match "\\(\\`\\|\\s-\\)-k\\s-" Man-arguments)
+ (eq (process-status process) 'exit)
+ (= (process-exit-status process) 0)
+ (= (point-min) (point-max)))
+ (setq err-mess (format "%s: no matches" Man-arguments)
+ delete-buff t))
+
((or (stringp process)
(not (and (eq (process-status process) 'exit)
(= (process-exit-status process) 0))))
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In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_AU
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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