Re: WoMan generates different result from man?

[Emanuel Berg]

Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> writes:

> There is another problem: when using `man', it would firstly
> catch the symbol/word at point by default. When there is NO
> manpage for this symbol, it still displays as a candidate (I am
> using ido-ubiquitous and don't know the behavior in other
> cases). And when I hit RET, it would report like this:
>
> error in process sentinel: user-error: Can't find the time_t
> manpage
>
> This is annoying. But `woman' would ignore the symbol where the
> cursor locates (it would not display `time_t' in this case) and
> I am informed ahead that I cannot get the manpage of this
> symbol.
>
> Also, the matching rule is confusing(possibly only for ido), for
> instance, when I run `M-x man RET git', `git' does not appear at
> the front of all candidates until I additionally add `(1)'
> (hence I have to type the whole word `git(1)'), which is a bit
> inconvenient.

OK, I'm sorry, I can't help you because nothing of this is even
the slightest familiar to me. I just `M-x man' and I've never had
any problems. Probably, some other guy on the list can help you.

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