[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5138: marked as done (23.1; M-x man -k error message)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #5138,
regarding 23.1; M-x man -k error message
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> 23.1; M-x man -k error message
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> Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:12:42 +1100
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> Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
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> If you do an M-x man keyword search with nothing matching, like
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>     M-x man
>     -k jkjkjkjk Ret
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> The result shown is
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>     error in process sentinel: Can't find the -k jkjkjkjk manpage
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> where reads as if it thought the "-k" was the page name -- which is not
> the case, M-x man understands -k is an "apropos" keyword search.
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> This could be due to "man-db" (as used in debian and elsewhere) printing
> nothing for no matches, as opposed to a "nothing appropriate" message
> which Man-bgproc-sentinel knows to look for.
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> Perhaps something along the lines below,
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> 2009-12-07  Kevin Ryde  <address@hidden>
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>         * man.el (Man-bgproc-sentinel): When "-k foo" produces no output
>         show error "no matches" rather than "Can't find manpage", as the
>         latter reads like -k was interpreted as a page name (which is not
>         so).
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> --- man.el.~1.193.~     2009-11-29 08:37:28.000000000 +1100
> +++ man.el      2009-12-07 11:04:19.000000000 +1100
> @@ -1174,6 +1174,15 @@
>                                                   (progn
>                                                     (end-of-line) (point)))
>                        delete-buff t))
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> +               ;; "-k foo", successful exit, but no output (from man-db)
> +               ((and (string-match "\\(\\`\\|\\s-\\)-k\\s-" Man-arguments)
> +                     (eq (process-status process) 'exit)
> +                     (= (process-exit-status process) 0)
> +                     (= (point-min) (point-max)))
> +                (setq err-mess (format "%s: no matches" Man-arguments)
> +                      delete-buff t))
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>                 ((or (stringp process)
>                      (not (and (eq (process-status process) 'exit)
>                                (= (process-exit-status process) 0))))
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
>  of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian
> configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' 
> '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 
> '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
> '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
>  '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 
> 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g 
> -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_AU
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Re: bug#5138: Acknowledgement (23.1; M-x man -k error message)
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:00:45 +1100
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> In absense of any objection I made this change.
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