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bug#16722: 24.3.50; `M-x man' does not handle case appropriately
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#16722: 24.3.50; `M-x man' does not handle case appropriately |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:21:07 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> But `man -k' always works (to the extent we need it to) if the whatis
>> database is correctly installed.
>
> No, it doesn't. For example, it isn't supported with this clone:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/man-1.4-bin.zip/download
>
> And, as demonstrated in this bug report, it can backfire when the
> database is not "correctly installed".
npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:
> I can't reproduce the problem here, as my cygwin's man -k prints only to
> stderr in this case. Does checking exit status help?
[...]
> - (setq table (Man-parse-man-k)))
> + (when (eq 0
> + (ignore-errors
> + (call-process
> + manual-program nil '(t nil) nil
> + "-k" (concat (when (or Man-man-k-use-anchor
> + (string-equal prefix ""))
> + "^")
> + prefix))))
> + (setq table (Man-parse-man-k)))))
There was no followup on this patch, and I don't have a Windows system
to test with. Eli, would this patch fix the problem both with the
uninstalled whereis database and the ezwinports version of man?
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