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Re: if can't find man page, prompt for another
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: if can't find man page, prompt for another |
Date: |
11 Jul 2002 16:00:36 +0900 |
pot@gnu.org (Francesco Potorti`) writes:
> OK, how about here prompting me for a different man page, instead of
> having me type in M-x man (gpg) again.
>
> This is a good idea, in my opinion.
I'm not so sure; it could also be annoying.
In my experience, it's much more common for M-x man to fail because
there _is_ no man page for a program, not because I typed something
wrong. Re-prompting is just a waste of time in that case. I also think
that it's a good general rule for a command to have a single consistent
terminating state, error or no; it's simply less surprising for the
user.
-Miles
--
I'd rather be consing.