Re: M-x man could better guess neighboring word

[martin rudalics]

> My cursor is at "_":
> jidanni@fartzwadd:~$ crontab _
> and I do M-x man, and it doesn't prompt me with the default of
> crontab, instead I have to move the cursor back a bit and try again.
> emacs-version "22.1.1"

Please try the attached patch.  Would you find it useful to
search previous lines, the remainder of the current line,
following lines?  Should we skip any non-whitespace chars?

*** man.el.~1.167.2.6.~ Thu Nov 29 19:51:20 2007
--- man.el      Fri Dec 14 10:22:56 2007
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*** 652,657 ****
--- 652,658 ----
        (if pos (goto-char pos))
        ;; Default man entry title is any word the cursor is on, or if
        ;; cursor not on a word, then nearest preceding word.
+       (skip-chars-backward " \t")
        (skip-chars-backward "-a-zA-Z0-9._+:")
        (let ((start (point)))
        (skip-chars-forward "-a-zA-Z0-9._+:")