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bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db
From: |
Wolfgang Jenkner |
Subject: |
bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:23:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (berkeley-unix) |
On Mon, Dec 24 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The easiest is probably to keep the current structure and just drop the
> ^ if the string is non-empty (we'll get lots more false-positives than
> with the ^, but we still gain: even for some single letters, like
> "man -k b", we get less than half as much data as "man -k ^").
You mean, for all man programs? I considered this as well, but I just
don't feel like making things worse for the two man programs which are
used on GNU-based system, and which do have a single page name per line,
and at its beginning (quite reasonably so, and in the spirit of POSIX
man(1p), I'd say). So perhaps the second patch I proposed (without the
test for valid output of `man -k ^')
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/68605
would be better, after all, even though the
Man-keyword-completion-anchor variable is ugly.
Wolfgang
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, (continued)
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Kevin Ryde, 2012/12/14
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2012/12/16
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2012/12/22
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/22
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2012/12/22
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/23
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2012/12/23
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2012/12/23
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/23
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/23
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db,
Wolfgang Jenkner <=
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/23
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Kevin Ryde, 2012/12/29
- bug#13160: 24.3.50; [PATCH] man page completion support beyond man-db, Kevin Ryde, 2012/12/22