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bug#65766: 29.1; On MS-Windows, Pcomplete for Git subcommands opens a we


From: Jim Porter
Subject: bug#65766: 29.1; On MS-Windows, Pcomplete for Git subcommands opens a web browser instead of listing completions(?!)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 13:01:46 -0700

This is pretty weird, but I think I know what's happening here. On MS-Windows, start from "emacs -Q -f shell" and then type:

  git add -<TAB>

Instead of showing the list of completions, this opens up a web browser to the URL <file:///C:/Program%20Files/Git/mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/git-add.html> (or wherever you installed Git).

That's because usually, MS-Windows users don't have "man" installed, so Git opts to show its man pages in a web browser. I think when getting Pcomplete info from Help for Git, we should pass '--man' on the command line to force Git to use the format we expect (or at least to error out so that it doesn't open the web browser).





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