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bug#16722: 24.3.50; `M-x man' does not handle case appropriately
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#16722: 24.3.50; `M-x man' does not handle case appropriately |
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Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:36:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I can only test the ezwinports case: the code proposed by Noam will
> cause that 'man' to return a non-zero exit status, so it sounds like
> an okay solution for ezwinports.
>
> The use case with uninstalled whatis database you could probably test
> on your system, by moving the database aside or renaming it?
I tried this on Debian bullseye, and "man -k" indeed had a non-zero
return code.
So I'll just apply Noam's patch and close the bug report.
Thanks for checking the ezwinports case.
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