Subject: Re: bug#5578: 23.1.92; M-x man should consider $MANPATH when making completions

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:30:10 -0500

> $ man -w whoami
> /usr/share/man/man1/whoami.1.gz
> $ man -k whoami
> whoami (1)           - print effective userid
> $ man -w sa-update
> /home/jidanni/.spamassassin-tree/man/man1/sa-update.1p
> $ man -k sa-update
> $

Looks like a bug/misfeature in the `man' program, then.
Of course, man.el could try to work around this limitation, but I think
we first should try to get it fixed.

        Stefan