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23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.

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From: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-bug-tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5347: marked as done (23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1)
 as absent manpage.)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:06:01 +0000

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From: trentbuck <at> gmail.com
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:14:38 -0800 (PST)

On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was.  M-x man RET
pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when actually
man(1) is what was missing.  M-x woman RET pastebinint RET works.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2009-11-02 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=no' '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: C
  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.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  xterm-mouse-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
SPC t o SPC d a r c s . c a b a l SPC t o SPC f i x 
SPC t h a t , DEL RET C-x ESC O A C-c C-@ a p t - g 
e t SPC s o u r c e SPC d o e s n ' t SPC n e e d SPC 
t o o SPC DEL DEL DEL DEL r o o t RET ESC a C-u C-c 
C-@ E a c h SPC v l a n SPC a p p e a r s SPC a s SPC 
a SPC s e p a r a t e SPC i n t e r f a c e ESC b ESC 
b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC d t a g g e d SPC i n 
t e r f a c e RET ESC a C-x ESC O B I SPC g e t SPC 
t h e SPC s a m e SPC p r o b l e m SPC w i t h SPC 
H E A D , SPC c h e c k i n g SPC - h s SPC n o w RET 
ESC [ 5 ~ ESC > C-c C-@ ESC x m a n RET p a s t e b 
i n i t RET ESC x C-g ESC x w o m a n RET ESC O A RET 
C-x ESC O A ESC x m a n RET ESC O A RET C-h e C-@ ESC 
O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC w ESC > ESC x r e p o r t SPC 
e m a c s SPC b u g RET

Recent messages:
Building list of manual directory expansions...
Building completion list of all manual topics...
uncompressing pastebinit.1.gz...done
WoMan formatting buffer...done in 0 seconds
Invoking man pastebinit in the background
Please wait: formatting the pastebinit man page...
pastebinit man page formatted
error in process sentinel: Man-bgproc-sentinel: Can't find the pastebinit manpage
error in process sentinel: Can't find the pastebinit manpage
Mark set [2 times]

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5347-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5347: 23.1;
	M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:05:28 +0200

> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:05:39 +1100
> From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 5347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> reopen 5347
> thanks
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was.  M-x man
> >> RET pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when
> >> actually man(1) is what was missing.  M-x woman RET pastebinint RET
> >> works.
> >
> > "M-x man" works by invoking man(1), so it cannot work without one
> > installed.  "M-x woman" (WO == without) does not need man(1),
> > therefore it still works.
> 
> I realize that.  This issue is because M-x man RET foo RET reports
> 
>     error in process sentinel: Can't find the foo manpage
> 
> but it should report something like
> 
>     error in process sentinel: Can't find man(1)

It cannot know.

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