GNU bug report logs - #5347
23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: trentbuck <at> gmail.com

Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 5347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5347: 23.1;
	M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
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
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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