Re: woman case sensitive

[Roland Winkler]

On Sat Oct 29 2005 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:34:00 -0400
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> >     On my GNU linux system the command man is not case sensitive.
> > 
> > That is not the case for me.  `man cat' presents the man page for
> > `cat'.  `man CAT' says it can't find anything.  `man -w -a CAT' finds
> > nothing.
> 
> I think the OP meant "M-x man", not the command `man' you invoke from
> the shell's prompt.  On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the Emacs command
> "M-x man RET CAT RET" does display the man page for `cat'.

On my SuSE GNU linux computer, indeed not only the emacs command
"M-x man RET CAT RET" is case insensitive, but also the command `man
CAT' invoked from the shell prompt. (I only tried this computer
before submitting the bug report because I use it most often.)

On a computer with Fedora GNU linux, both commands fail, the emacs
command "M-x man RET CAT RET" and the command `man CAT' invoked from
the shell prompt.

I have no idea what is causing this inconsistent behavior.
(I wish that at least emacs would give me a consistent behavior on
different platforms.)

Roland