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emacs-27 b9abf5c: Improve do string of 'man'
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Eli Zaretskii |
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emacs-27 b9abf5c: Improve do string of 'man' |
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Sat, 27 Jun 2020 03:49:24 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: emacs-27
commit b9abf5ceb2de9843eacafc7d004a9adbd060dfa8
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Improve do string of 'man'
* lisp/man.el (man): Mention the need to use C-q for quoting the
SPC character in the man-page input. (Bug#41859)
---
lisp/man.el | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 4406ac5..c914ec3 100644
--- a/lisp/man.el
+++ b/lisp/man.el
@@ -996,7 +996,11 @@ An \"apropos\" query with -k gives a buffer of matching
page
names or descriptions. The pattern argument is usually an
\"grep -E\" style regexp.
- -k pattern"
+ -k pattern
+
+Note that in some cases you will need to use \\[quoted-insert] to quote the
+SPC character in the above examples, because this command attempts
+to auto-complete your input based on the installed manual pages."
(interactive
(list (let* ((default-entry (Man-default-man-entry))
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