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emacs-27 b9abf5c: Improve do string of 'man'


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: emacs-27 b9abf5c: Improve do string of 'man'
Date: 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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