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23.1.50; use shell-command completion for M-x man page names |
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:47:43 +0800 |
Gentlemen, as you know when you do M-x man and get the prompt
Manual entry (default blabla):
there is no TAB completion.
Well as many of the man pages are the same names as shell commands, why
not just use the same completion as shell-command and
shell-command-on-region use?
It's better than nothing, and one can still enter other names too.
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Re: bug#3717: M-x man completion |
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:01:05 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>> If man can say its page names then asking it would have to be the most
>>> reliable way.
>> It should be implemented to fail gracefully to not display completions
>> when man can not say its page names.
>
> AFAIK it does.
Yes, I tried to emulate `man' that doesn't support the -k switch
(using a non-existent switch), and it fails gracefully by not
providing completions, i.e. the same behavior as was in Emacs 23.1.
Anyone on platforms where `man' doesn't support the -k switch,
could use woman.el anyway.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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