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[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5347: marked as done (23.1; M-x man: misreports
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[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5347: marked as done (23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.) |
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Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:06:01 +0000 |
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and subject line Re: bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as
absent manpage.
has caused the Emacs bug report #5347,
regarding 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
to be marked as done.
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23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage. |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:14:38 -0800 (PST) |
On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was. M-x man RET
pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when actually
man(1) is what was missing. M-x woman RET pastebinint RET works.
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
of 2009-11-02 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu'
'--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
'--with-x=no' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu'
'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: C
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_AU.utf8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Fundamental
Minor modes in effect:
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
xterm-mouse-mode: t
savehist-mode: t
icomplete-mode: t
partial-completion-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
delete-selection-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
column-number-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
SPC t o SPC d a r c s . c a b a l SPC t o SPC f i x
SPC t h a t , DEL RET C-x ESC O A C-c C-@ a p t - g
e t SPC s o u r c e SPC d o e s n ' t SPC n e e d SPC
t o o SPC DEL DEL DEL DEL r o o t RET ESC a C-u C-c
C-@ E a c h SPC v l a n SPC a p p e a r s SPC a s SPC
a SPC s e p a r a t e SPC i n t e r f a c e ESC b ESC
b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC d t a g g e d SPC i n
t e r f a c e RET ESC a C-x ESC O B I SPC g e t SPC
t h e SPC s a m e SPC p r o b l e m SPC w i t h SPC
H E A D , SPC c h e c k i n g SPC - h s SPC n o w RET
ESC [ 5 ~ ESC > C-c C-@ ESC x m a n RET p a s t e b
i n i t RET ESC x C-g ESC x w o m a n RET ESC O A RET
C-x ESC O A ESC x m a n RET ESC O A RET C-h e C-@ ESC
O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC w ESC > ESC x r e p o r t SPC
e m a c s SPC b u g RET
Recent messages:
Building list of manual directory expansions...
Building completion list of all manual topics...
uncompressing pastebinit.1.gz...done
WoMan formatting buffer...done in 0 seconds
Invoking man pastebinit in the background
Please wait: formatting the pastebinit man page...
pastebinit man page formatted
error in process sentinel: Man-bgproc-sentinel: Can't find the pastebinit
manpage
error in process sentinel: Can't find the pastebinit manpage
Mark set [2 times]
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Re: bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage. |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:05:28 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:05:39 +1100
> From: "Trent W. Buck" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> reopen 5347
> thanks
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was. M-x man
> >> RET pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when
> >> actually man(1) is what was missing. M-x woman RET pastebinint RET
> >> works.
> >
> > "M-x man" works by invoking man(1), so it cannot work without one
> > installed. "M-x woman" (WO == without) does not need man(1),
> > therefore it still works.
>
> I realize that. This issue is because M-x man RET foo RET reports
>
> error in process sentinel: Can't find the foo manpage
>
> but it should report something like
>
> error in process sentinel: Can't find man(1)
It cannot know.
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