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bug#3717: M-x man completion

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#3717: M-x man completion
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:03:27 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) 
> (The way M-x man accepts "-k pattern" seems to be a well-kept secret --
> or is it obvious to everyone except me!)

It's not a feature, AFAIK, more like an accident.  M-x man xterm|tail RET
also works, but again, it's just an accident.
Hopefully at some point we'll get rid of the sed script and then we may
run "man" without going through a shell, in which case those accidents
won't work any more.


        Stefan
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