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31.0.50; M-x man on macOS fails with error

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77944: closed (31.0.50; M-x man on macOS fails with error)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:53:05 +0000

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From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 31.0.50; M-x man on macOS fails with error
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:27:44 +0200

To reproduce with emacs -Q

M-x man RET ls RET

The man buffer shows

sed: 1: "/^[\o001-\o032][\o001-\ ...": RE error: invalid character range




In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin24.4.0, NS
 appkit-2575.50 Version 15.4.1 (Build 24E263)) of 2025-04-20 built on
 pro2
Repository revision: 6fb2a4691f4d53473c0a326d3a6c23df9008b6e8
Repository branch: master
System Description:  macOS 15.4.1

Configured using:
 'configure --cache-file
 /var/folders/1d/k_6t25f94sl83szqbf8gpkrh0000gn/T//config.cache.master
 --enable-checking=yes --with-native-compilation=no CC=clang
 'CFLAGS=-Wgnu-imaginary-constant -Wunused-result -g -g -O0 -F
 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks
 -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-flag-enum -Wno-missing-method-return-type
 -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-strict-prototypes -Wno-availability
 -Wno-nullability-completeness''

Configured features:
ACL DBUS GLIB GNUTLS LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG
RSVG SQLITE3 THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM ZLIB

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 77944-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#77944: 31.0.50; M-x man on macOS fails with error
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:52:44 +0200

Version: 31.1

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hi Gerd,

>> Yes, please try. [[:cntrl:]] is equal to [\\o0000-\\o0037]. Much
>> more than [\\o0001-\\o0032], so I'd prefer the latter.
>
> The second one doesn't work. It gives the error again in M-x man. Also
> in the shell
>
> /Users/gerd/emacs/github/cl-packages % sed -e '/^[\\o0001-\\o0032][\\o0001-\\o0032]*$/d' /dev/null
> sed: 1: "/^[\\o0001-\\o0032][\\o ...": RE error: invalid character range
>
> I guess I had gsed still installed when I tried that in zsh, and forgot
> to add the /usr/bin/.

Thanks for the check. So I've pushed a patch using [:cntrl:] to
master. Closing the bug.

Best regards, Michael.

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