bug#4056: Searching for program: no such file or directory, LC_CTYPE=C man

[Stefan Monnier]

> Can someone please send me the workaround!!

I've just installed the patch below which should silence those errors
(tho the error will still be there and will prevent completion from
working).



        Stefan


=== modified file 'lisp/man.el'
--- lisp/man.el 2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000
+++ lisp/man.el 2010-02-11 15:54:21 +0000
@@ -771,8 +771,13 @@
           ;; quote anything.
           (let ((process-environment (copy-sequence process-environment)))
             (setenv "COLUMNS" "999") ;; don't truncate long names
+            ;; manual-program might not even exist.  And since it's
+            ;; run differently in Man-getpage-in-background, an error
+            ;; here may not necessarily mean that we'll also get an
+            ;; error later.
+            (ignore-errors
             (call-process manual-program nil '(t nil) nil
-                          "-k" (concat "^" prefix)))
+                            "-k" (concat "^" prefix))))
           (goto-char (point-min))
           (while (re-search-forward "^\\([^ \t\n]+\\)\\(?: ?\\((.+?)\\)\\(?:[ 
\t]+- \\(.*\\)\\)?\\)?" nil t)
             (push (propertize (concat (match-string 1) (match-string 2))