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bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
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Trent W. Buck |
Subject: |
bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage. |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:05:39 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
reopen 5347
thanks
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was. M-x man
>> RET pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when
>> actually man(1) is what was missing. M-x woman RET pastebinint RET
>> works.
>
> "M-x man" works by invoking man(1), so it cannot work without one
> installed. "M-x woman" (WO == without) does not need man(1),
> therefore it still works.
I realize that. This issue is because M-x man RET foo RET reports
error in process sentinel: Can't find the foo manpage
but it should report something like
error in process sentinel: Can't find man(1)
- bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage., trentbuck, 2010/01/09
- bug#5347: marked as done (23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2010/01/09
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- bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.,
Trent W. Buck <=
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- bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage., Trent W. Buck, 2010/01/09
- bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage., Eli Zaretskii, 2010/01/10
- bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage., Trent W. Buck, 2010/01/10
- bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage., Juri Linkov, 2010/01/10
- bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage., Drew Adams, 2010/01/11
bug#5347: marked as done (23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2010/01/09