GNU bug report logs - #6013
[cperl-mode] cperl-perldoc doesn't work anymore with file test operators like -e

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: LanX <lanx.perl <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 6013-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 6013-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lanx.perl <at> googlemail.com
Subject: Re: bug#6013: [cperl-mode] cperl-perldoc doesn't work anymore with
 file test operators like -e
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:41:45 +0300
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 21:10:28 +0200
> Cc: 6013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> LanX <lanx.perl <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > cperl-mode can't call perldocs for functions with a hyphen anymore like "-e" or "-X"
> >
> > (cperl-perldoc "-e") or "M-x cperl-perldoc RET -e" result to
> >    "error in process sentinel: Man-bgproc-sentinel: Can't find the -e manpage"
> >
> > But perldoc -f -e works fine in the shell, and as far as I can see from the sources of cperl-mode "-e" this case is covered to be mapped on the -f switch.
> >
> > Tested on 23 and 22 from two different users on different continents.
> >
> > Cheers
> >   Rolf
> 
> I can confirm this bug, and have attached a fix.

Thanks, pushed to the master branch.




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