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bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
From: |
Trent W. Buck |
Subject: |
bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage. |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:59:31 +1100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why is the use-case of having man pages but not man(1) so important
> that it's worth catering to?
I was merely being pedantic re "cannot know" versus "not worth the
effort". The original case arose because I forgot what system I was
on and ran man instead of woman, and the error briefly confused me.
A peonland solution would simply be to put in my .emacs:
(unless (executable-find "man")
(defalias 'man 'woman))
> Maybe it would be good enough to change
>
> (error "Can't find the %s manpage" args)
> into
> (error "Can't find the %s manpage or no man(1)" args)
Yup, that'd be fine.
bug#5347: marked as done (23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2010/01/09