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bug#63132: Bug on Darwin MacOS with 'M-x man RET commandname[ ]'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#63132: Bug on Darwin MacOS with 'M-x man RET commandname[ ]' |
Date: |
Mon, 01 May 2023 19:57:26 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: asocial-hired.0l@icloud.com, 63132@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 12:30:39 -0400
>
> > But then I don't understand the situation: why would someone type
> > "M-x man RET 2 ", with the trailing space? Is this simply a mistake
> > on behalf of the user?
>
> `M-x man` accepts various special syntaxes in the minibuffer, such as
> `2 read` to mean "read the manpage for `read` in the 2nd section"
> (i.e. syscalls), like Arteen1000 mentions.
>
> So `M-x man RET 2 SPC TAB` should (hopefully) list all the section
> 2's manpages.
So you are saying the lags here are unavoidable?