Subject: Re: bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:52:07 +0200

>> Maybe it would be good enough to change
>>
>> 		(error "Can't find the %s manpage" args)
>> into
>> 		(error "Can't find the %s manpage or no man(1)" args)
>
> Yup, that'd be fine.

No, please don't change this.  A new error message is confusing.
It's not clear what "no man(1)" does mean.  The current message is good
for normal cases when the man executable and its filters are present
on the system.  Please either try to detect the fact that the man
executable is missing and display a separate error message, or leave
the current message unchanged.

-- 
Juri Linkov
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